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First They Killed My Father
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Witnessing the horrible and violent regime of Khmer Rouge, Lounge Ung, a young girl, who faces the oppression of the monarch, as she has been raised as a soldier since childhood.
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Sareum Srey Moch, Phoeung Kompheak, Sveng Socheata, Mun Kimhak, Heng Dara, Khoun Sothea, Sarun Nika, Run Malyna, Oun Srey Neang, Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, ...»
Director:
Angelina Jolie
Country:
United States, Cambodia
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#Angelina Jolie #First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers #Phoeung Kompheak #Sareum Srey Moch #Sveng Socheata
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September 14, 2017 As director, Angelina Jolie brings to life all the horrors of revolution and war, told through the point of view of a five-year-old Cambodian who later wrote a memoir of the tragic events she witnessed during the Pol Pot regime.
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September 15, 2017 like a female counterpart, from both a filmmaking aesthetic and protagonist POV, to the streaming platform's 2015 release "Beasts of No Nation."
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NOW Toronto
September 14, 2017 Jolie, outdoing her previous directorial efforts, captures Cambodia's wartime horror in beautiful, haunting visuals.
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Uproxx
September 14, 2017 The best work Jolie's done yet. Still, every time Loung's captors holler, "You must have a revolutionary spirit!", I wondered if Jolie ever feels the urge to make truly rebellious art.
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New York Magazine/Vulture
September 14, 2017 Amid all the important facts, I longed for something unnecessary from the filmmaker, some expressive flourish whose sole purpose isn't just to convey information.
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Seattle Times
September 14, 2017 Jolie draws restrained, naturalistic performances from her all-Cambodian cast, particularly young Sareum Srey Moch.
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Independent (UK)
September 14, 2017 One of the strengths of First They Killed My Father is its matter of fact quality. Only very late on does Jolie indulge in the kind of melodramatic flourishes you'd expect in a Hollywood movie on the same subject.
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Los Angeles Times
September 14, 2017 Though this story couldn't mean more to Jolie, she hasn't been able to make it mean as much to us.
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TheWrap
September 14, 2017 Jolie the woke celebrity and Jolie the artist seem caught at a crossroads with this film, juggling instincts that put her inner Terrence Malick and Ken Burns at odds with one another.
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Chicago Sun-Times
September 14, 2017 This is an accomplished and moving and solid drama from a director who seems on the verge of giving us a great movie sometime soon.
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Film Freak Central
September 14, 2017 [First They Killed My Father] is a very beautiful film of horrific things happening in a garden of earthly delights.
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Film Journal International
September 15, 2017 An alternately moving and protracted depiction of the Cambodian genocide from Angelina Jolie.
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