- Studio: PhotoSynthesis Productions
- Release Date: Sep 21, 2012
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75What I've come away with is a notion of a land which, despite its crushing problems, has produced a population that seems extraordinarily radiant.
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75This documentary is not just interesting, but timely.
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Sep 18, 201275The images and interviews Robert H. Lieberman and his crew have managed to capture are eye-opening enough to justify the dangerous effort.
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Sep 20, 201270Robert H. Lieberman, a novelist, filmmaker and professor at Cornell University, took three years to shoot documentary footage surreptitiously during assignments for the United States Embassy and a nongovernment organization. The result is eye-opening and insightful.
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Sep 18, 201270And yet it still works, so buoyed is the film by its open and honest take on a subject that would have been all too easy to turn into another marketable tragedy.
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Sep 18, 201270A compelling portrait of an entire nation being kept in captivity and ignorance.
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63A solid and subtly moving portrait of the people of Burma.
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Sep 18, 201260Only Lieberman's intrusive, slightly arrogant onscreen presence distracts from the profile, introducing an unwanted hint of American privilege to the film's perspective.