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The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
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Critics' Pick
Genre
Documentary
Producer
Flora Fernandez-Marengo
Distributor
The Cinema Guild
Release Date
Nov 21, 2008
Release Notes
NY
Review
The gifted cinematographer Ellen Kuras spent decades tracking the Phrasavaths, a large Laotian family that fled the devastated country after the secret U.S. war, after the father was imprisoned for advising Americans on where to drop thousands of bombs. The Betrayal moves among time periods and countries, from the Laotian countryside to the alien dangerous tenements of Brooklyn. The damage to the family seems too deep to heal, yet the film is lyrical, expansive, unbearably beautiful, with a melting violin score by Howard Shore. The bitterness has an epic scale—bottomless, borderless, universal.
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