The Missing Picture
2013 · Movie · Not Rated · 95 min · ★ 7.2 · 93% critics
A filmmaker revisits a painful chapter in Cambodia’s history, using handmade clay figures, archival footage, and personal narration to confront the violence and loss under a brutal regime. The film blends memory and evidence to reflect on what was taken, and what can still be shown.
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Streaming on Strand Releasing.
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Details
- Original title
- L'image manquante
- Years
- 2013
- Release date
- 2013-11-04
- Language
- French
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Critic score
- 93/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 (98 votes)
About
You’ll likely connect with this if you want an intimate, creative documentary that confronts real-world atrocities and memory, similar in spirit to The Salt of the Earth; Not for you if you avoid bleak, traumatic history.
Pros: inventive clay figure approach; personal, reflective narration; powerful historical testimony | Cons: harrowing subject matter; emotionally heavy throughout; not a light watch
Themes
- cambodia
- genocide
- clay
- khmer rouge
- claymation
Awards & recognition
- Un Certain Regard · 2013
- Academy Award — Best International Feature Film · 2014 · nominated
- International Submission to the Academy Awards · 2014 · nominated
- European Film Award — Best Documentary · 2013 · nominated
Cast & crew
- RD
Randal Douc
as Narrator (voice)
- JP
Jean-Baptiste Phou
as Narrator (voice)
Directed by Rithy Panh