The Killing Fields (1984)
Country: GB
Technical: col 141m
Director: Roland Joffe
Cast: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich
Synopsis:
An American journalist in Cambodia at the end of the Vietnam War witnesses the self-destruction of that country after its destabilisation by his own, and finally acknowledges his debt to his interpreter Dith Pran.
Review:
A superb piece of filmmaking, especially in the sequence depicting the chaotic evacuation of Phnom Penh, avoiding empty spectacle and - except for the misjudged handling of the Lennon song at the end - sentimentality. It showed that the British cinema could still mount productions of this scale, though the fortunes of the company Goldcrest would be compromised by the commercial and/or artistic failures of Revolution, The Mission and Absolute Beginners shortly after.
Country: GB
Technical: col 141m
Director: Roland Joffe
Cast: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich
Synopsis:
An American journalist in Cambodia at the end of the Vietnam War witnesses the self-destruction of that country after its destabilisation by his own, and finally acknowledges his debt to his interpreter Dith Pran.
Review:
A superb piece of filmmaking, especially in the sequence depicting the chaotic evacuation of Phnom Penh, avoiding empty spectacle and - except for the misjudged handling of the Lennon song at the end - sentimentality. It showed that the British cinema could still mount productions of this scale, though the fortunes of the company Goldcrest would be compromised by the commercial and/or artistic failures of Revolution, The Mission and Absolute Beginners shortly after.
Country: GB
Technical: col 141m
Director: Roland Joffe
Cast: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich
Synopsis:
An American journalist in Cambodia at the end of the Vietnam War witnesses the self-destruction of that country after its destabilisation by his own, and finally acknowledges his debt to his interpreter Dith Pran.
Review:
A superb piece of filmmaking, especially in the sequence depicting the chaotic evacuation of Phnom Penh, avoiding empty spectacle and - except for the misjudged handling of the Lennon song at the end - sentimentality. It showed that the British cinema could still mount productions of this scale, though the fortunes of the company Goldcrest would be compromised by the commercial and/or artistic failures of Revolution, The Mission and Absolute Beginners shortly after.