Cambodian cinema carries the weight of a culture that was almost entirely erased: the Khmer Rouge destroyed the country's film industry along with so much else, and rebuilding has been slow and hard-won. Recent years have seen a quiet new wave of local filmmakers finding their footing, with Monsoon Lover among the contemporary titles making it to international audiences.
Rating: 3.5★
Some of my wife's family hails from Cambodia, so I've heard my fair share of harrowing stories about the Khmer Rouge over the years. Those conversations, shared around kitchen tables and over family dinners, are heavy in a way that's hard to articulate. And
Rating: 4.0★
There is something profoundly absurd about standing before the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Colosseum, or the Louvre, monuments that have survived millennia of human history, only to watch hundreds of people experience them exclusively through the glowing rectangle of a smartphone on a selfie stick. It is one of
Genre Thriller
★★★ — Monsoon Lover (2023)
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