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Bérénice Bejo (The Artist) and Louis Garrel (The Dreamers) lend their voices to this award-winning animated period drama set in...
Bérénice Bejo (The Artist) and Louis Garrel (The Dreamers) lend their voices to this award-winning animated period drama set in Khmer era Cambodia.
"The story of a young woman who must learn how to stand up for herself, exist in the regime of the Khmer Rouge, survive and find her son who was kidnapped during their forced exile from Phnom Penh." (Annecy International Animation Film Festival)
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93 %28 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
80 %20 reviewsAudience score rating
"There are hints that the film will scale itself to the broader historical context of this era, but the screenplay never elaborates on the ethnic strife the undergirds the Cambodian genocide."
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine"Do has created a tense, heartbreaking ode to a tragic time; a deeply personal story, superbly visualized."
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Film Threat
Film Threat"Funan is structured as a series of carefully choreographed set pieces in which things go from bad to worse to unimaginably awful."
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RogerEbert.com
RogerEbert.com"Do’s tale is resolutely earthbound. He uses animation as an interrogation into the practice of fictional depiction derived from actual atrocities."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Funan is a stunning piece of animation in which the beauty of the visuals and the horror of the situation are inextricably intertwined."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"No film can capture the extent of what the Cambodian people went through at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, but Do has honoured his mother's story in this telling..."
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Variety
Variety"A realistic and moving account of a major 20th century atrocity."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterFunan | Details
- Runtime
- 84
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- Belgium, France, Luxembourg
