Remarkable.
LA TIMES

Elegant… A powerful work.
SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
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Moving, lyrical… An impressive and original fusion of the political and the personal.
NEWSWEEK
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Kuras has assembled a remarkably thorough account of a family’s ordeal, edited to compelling effect by Tavi, who became a film editor in New York. Nerakhoon is a powerful work of anthropology.
SCREEN DAILY

The film is a poetic recounting of Mr. Phrasavath’s journey into exile…The title takes on both political and personal resonance as “The Betrayal” evolves into a meditation on the failures of imperialism and of patriarchy. The film’s lengthy incubation period seems inseparable from its central themes of loss and memory.
NEW YORK TIMES
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