A compelling portrait of an entire nation being kept in captivity and ignorance.
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Village Voice
Village Voice
And yet it still works, so buoyed is the film by its open and honest take on a subject that would have been all too easy to turn into another marketable tragedy.
Robert H. Lieberman, a novelist, filmmaker and professor at Cornell University, took three years to shoot documentary footage surreptitiously during assignments for the United States Embassy and a nongovernment organization. The result is eye-opening and insightful.
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Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
A solid and subtly moving portrait of the people of Burma.
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Time Out
Time Out
Only Lieberman's intrusive, slightly arrogant onscreen presence distracts from the profile, introducing an unwanted hint of American privilege to the film's perspective.