Rithy Panh and Elizabeth Becker on Meeting with Pol Pot | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2025

Director Rithy Panh and journalist Elizabeth Becker discuss Meeting with Pol Pot, a 2025 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema selection, with FLC Vice President of Programming Florence Almozini. Meeting with Pol Pot opens at Film at Lincoln Center on June 13. Get tickets: https://www.filmlinc.org/films/meetin... In 1978, three French journalists arrive in Cambodia to survey the country and interview its leader, Pol Pot—but after a picture-perfect arrival, cracks begin to emerge in the murderous regime’s facade of respectability. For Cambodian-born Rithy Panh, the damage inflicted upon his homeland by the Khmer Rouge has fueled a lifetime of innovative work in the vein of 2013’s The Missing Picture, which reconstructed the period’s events in part through clay-figurine dioramas. This real-life journalistic excursion, based on true events detailed in Elizabeth Becker’s nonfiction book When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution, is brought to life thanks to exemplary lead performances from Irène Jacob, Grégoire Colin, and Cyril Gueï, meticulously conjuring the sights and sounds of 1978 Cambodia with the assistance of archival footage and more clay figurines. The result is a unique admixture—historical horror paired with a rich meditation on the impossibility of portraying it—that only Panh could make. A Strand Releasing release. More info: http://filmlinc.org Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... Like on Facebook:   / filmlinc   Follow on X:   / filmlinc   Follow on Instagram:   / filmlinc