{"id":578,"date":"2014-08-21T17:38:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T21:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=578"},"modified":"2024-03-30T17:19:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T21:19:42","slug":"the-missing-picture-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"The Missing Picture-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Missing Picture-2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Rithy Panh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Randal Douc<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #157<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/70285668.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1250\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/70285668-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70285668\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/70285668-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/70285668.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed August 21, 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: C+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One question continued to go through my mind while viewing The Missing Picture (2013). Is it a documentary or a foreign film? It is a documentary, but strangely, the film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.<\/p>\n<p>I hate to say this, but after fifteen minutes or so I found the film quite dull.<\/p>\n<p>I respect the creative, expressionist clay figures and enjoy the black-and-white real-life clips of the horrific events from 1970&#8217;s Cambodia.<\/p>\n<p>But I found the narration as dull as dishwater.<\/p>\n<p>I watched forty-five minutes of the one hour and thirty-five minutes run time and deduced that I had gotten the film&#8217;s point. It does not take away from the importance of the subject, but the presentation could have been a bit more exciting.<\/p>\n<p>This is a common occurrence in the documentary genre.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oscar Nominations:\u00a0<\/strong>Best Foreign Language Film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Missing Picture-2013 Director Rithy Panh Starring Randal Douc Scott&#8217;s Review #157 Reviewed August 21, 2014 Grade: C+ One question continued to go through my mind while viewing The Missing Picture (2013). Is it a documentary or a foreign film? It is a documentary, but strangely, the film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=578\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Missing Picture-2013<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,46,442,35,300,3954],"tags":[76,249,443,67,301,3955],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-films","category-documentaries","category-french-films","category-foreignfilms","category-foreign-documentaries","category-rithy-panh","tag-2013-movie-reviews","tag-documentaries","tag-french-films","tag-foreign-language-films","tag-foreign-documentaries","tag-rithy-panh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20066,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/20066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}