- Summary: Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and narration to revisit the atrocities committed by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979.
- Director: Rithy Panh
- Genre(s): Documentary
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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90The Missing Picture is personal and unexpected, a documentary that mixes media in an unusual way to very potent effect.
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80The film is a brave act of witness complicated by the documaker’s decision to re-create his experiences using clay figurines, a tricky aesthetic device that raises fascinating and problematic questions of representation.
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75Paramount to molding a narrative of war and totalitarianism, however, is the inventive aesthetic in which Panh frames his memoir: a hypnotic hybrid of bleak archival footage, thoughtful voiceover, tone-dictating music, and—most significantly—homemade clay-figurine dioramas.
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70A deliberately distanced but often harrowing vision of a living hell.
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