The Look of Silence

2014, Documentary, 1h 39m

139 Reviews 5,000+ Ratings

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The Look of Silence delivers a less shocking -- yet just as terribly compelling -- companion piece to Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing. Read critic reviews

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An optician confronts the men who killed the brother that he never knew during the 1960s Indonesian genocide.
  • Rating:
    PG-13 (Thematic Material|Graphic Desc. of Inhumanity|Graphic Desc. of Atrocities)
  • Genre:
    Documentary
  • Original Language:
    Indonesian
  • Director:
    Joshua Oppenheimer
  • Producer:
    Signe Byrge Sørensen
  • Release Date (Theaters):
     limited
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  • Box Office (Gross USA):
    $109.1K
  • Runtime:
  • Distributor:
    Drafthouse Films

Cast & Crew

Joshua Oppenheimer
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Joshua Oppenheimer
Director
Signe Byrge Sørensen
Producer
Werner Herzog
Executive Producer
Errol Morris
Executive Producer
André Singer
Executive Producer
Lars Skree
Cinematographer
Nils Pagh Andersen
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  • Jun 17, 2016
    http://cinephilecrocodile.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/the-look-ofsilence-dir-joshua.html
    Anthony L Super Reviewer
  • Nov 11, 2015
    Despite its tendency to place more the interviewer at the center of the doc than its subject, and how his confrontation seems at times fruitless and misguided, this welcome follow-up to The Act of Killing is also revealing as it exposes a country trying to bury its past.
    Carlos M Super Reviewer
  • Sep 11, 2014
    An interesting film that looks at the Indonesian genocide of the sixties. Unfortunately it comes on the heels of an Act of Killing which covers the same topic in a much stronger way. Not a bad effort, just not great.
    John B Super Reviewer
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