Saturday, October 1, 2011

The Rice People

Cambodia

Fine film which worked on several levels: as an anthropological study of subsistence rice growers in an isolated flood plain and as a study of the trials and tribulations of one particular family as they deal with the various calamities that befall folks in that region. The dynamics of small-village life was quite well drawn.

Beautiful cine throughout. Some of the players were amateurish but the young woman who emerged as the lead had a calm presence that added greatly to the overall impact of the film.

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