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A River Changes Course

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A filmmaker follows three young Cambodians as they struggle to overcome environmental and economic adversity.

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Joe Morgenstern Wall Street Journal Oct 10, 2013
Kalyanee Mam's documentary feature reveals the anguishing sense of loss behind a profusion of ravishingly beautiful images. Go to Full Review
Sheri Linden Los Angeles Times Oct 10, 2013
4/5
Mam's camera work is exquisite in its immediacy and agility. Go to Full Review
Tomas Hachard Slant Magazine Oct 3, 2013
3/4
A delicate documentary about a way of life that's slowly disappearing, yet gives way to nothing new. Go to Full Review
Glenn Dunks Glenn Dunks May 2, 2021
B+
Rather than discussing the Khmer Rouge, Mam's film instead focuses on the little-seen world of the country's provincial population... Go to Full Review
Sarah Brinks Battleship Pretension Feb 23, 2021
A River Changes Course is the perfect example of what happens when a documentarian is too close to her subjects and looses all sense of the bigger picture. Go to Full Review
Ben Nicholson CineVue Feb 25, 2019
3/5
A meandering and enormously engrossing look at these slowly dwindling ways of life. Go to Full Review
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Kalyanee Mam

Director

Youk Chhang

Executive Producer

Kalyanee Mam

Producer

Ratanak Leng

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Movie Info

Synopsis A filmmaker follows three young Cambodians as they struggle to overcome environmental and economic adversity.
Director
Kalyanee Mam
Producer
Kalyanee Mam, Ratanak Leng
Production Co
Sundance
Genre
Documentary, Drama
Original Language
Khmer
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 22, 2016
Runtime
1h 23m
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