A River Changes Course

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2013,

1h 23m,

Documentary/

Drama

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91%

11 Reviews

Tomatometer

67%

Popcornmeter

91%

Tomatometer

11 Reviews

67%

Popcornmeter

100+ Ratings

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

Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

Kalyanee Mam's documentary feature reveals the anguishing sense of loss behind a profusion of ravishingly beautiful images.

Oct 10, 2013

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Sheri Linden

Los Angeles Times

Mam's camera work is exquisite in its immediacy and agility.

Rated: 4/5 •

Oct 10, 2013

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Tomas Hachard

Slant Magazine

A delicate documentary about a way of life that's slowly disappearing, yet gives way to nothing new.

Rated: 3/4 •

Oct 3, 2013

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Glenn Dunks

Rather than discussing the Khmer Rouge, Mam's film instead focuses on the little-seen world of the country's provincial population...

Rated: B+ •

May 2, 2021

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Sarah Brinks

Battleship Pretension

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.

Feb 23, 2021

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Ben Nicholson

CineVue

A meandering and enormously engrossing look at these slowly dwindling ways of life.

Rated: 3/5 •

Feb 25, 2019

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Kalyanee Mam

Director

Youk Chhang

Executive Producer

Kalyanee Mam

Producer

Ratanak Leng

Producer

Synopsis

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

Director: Kalyanee Mam
Producer: Kalyanee Mam, Ratanak Leng
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Original Language: Khmer
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 22, 2016
Runtime: 1h 23m

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