Stranger in One's Own Home: Rithy Panh's 'Exile'

Cambodian expat director Rithy Panh's latest work is a haunting, dreamlike piece of cinema that masterfully dislodges the audience from any clear sense of time or space. Moreover, writes Glenn Dunks, the non-literal documentary offers sharp commentary on the deplorable conditions faced by the filmmaker's compatriots under the Khmer Rouge, and is yet another attempt by Panh to make sense of the home from which he was forcibly ejected.

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displacement, migration, genocide, The Missing Picture, memory, Asian cinema.