Following her mother’s death, manga artist Soriya travels to her ancestral home in Phnom Penh, with hopes of reconnecting with her distant family and using the visit as inspiration for her work. All goes well initially. Renting an apartment in Metta, a rundown Khmer Rouge-era housing complex, her visit to her maternal relatives finds her welcomed with open arms. But Soriya’s waking hours in the apartment and its surroundings are punctuated by terrifying, bloody visions, almost as though she were a conduit for horrors of the past wanting to seep into the present.
Inrasothythep Neth and Sokyou Chea’s blood-chilling psychological horror explores a personal and political past through the present, transforming a characterful space into an insidious environment. Surrounded by modern high-rises, this decrepit structure, with its brutalist architecture and peeling surfaces, is a relic from a dark period in history whose painful memories it has absorbed. In tracing Soriya’s ominous journey back to her roots, Tenement hints at a necessary reckoning with Cambodia’s political past without overplaying its historical dimension. It’s an impressive work from a woefully underrepresented national cinema.
布莱恩·豪威,安娜贝拉·沃丽丝,阿尔法·伍达德,埃里克·拉丁,加布里埃尔·贝特曼,瓦德·霍尔顿,伊瓦尔·布罗格,凯莉·奥马利,托尼·阿门多拉,罗宾·皮尔逊·罗斯,约瑟夫·比沙拉,希洛·尼尔森,杰夫·韦纳,莎拉·谢尔顿,卡姆登·辛格,凯拉·丹尼尔斯,扎克·帕帕斯
莫洽·梦若,克里斯托佛·山德
David Hon Ma Chu,Oriana Charles
乔治·肯尼迪,理查德·克里纳,尼克‧曼库索,萨莉·安·豪斯,凯特·瑞德,Victoria,Burgoyne,Jennifer,McKinney,Danny,Higham,绍尔·鲁宾内克,Murray,Cruchley,阿道夫·希特勒,Adolf,Hitler,安德鲁·森普尔
Ryan Davies,Stephanie Lodge
Tara Buck ,John Mese ,Juliette Jeffers
