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The Killing Fields
The film follows New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg who is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.
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3 June 1945, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
9 November 1920, New York, New York, USA
15 February 1934, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
26 March 1920, London, England, UK
9 December 1953, Christopher, Illinois, USA
4 April 1944, Spokane, Washington, USA
22 March 1940, Samrong Young, Cambodia
5 June 1941, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
September 16, 2015
Few feature films have captured a nation's agony more dramatically than Roland Joffé's The Killing Fields.
September 16, 2015
If you see no more than one film a year, make this the one for 1984.
April 09, 2008
The intent and outward trappings are all impressively in place, but at its heart there's something missing.
January 15, 2014
One of the great films from what proved to be a great year for cinema, The Killing Fields hasn't lost any of its power over the ensuing 30 years.
October 23, 2004
The best moments are the human ones, the conversations, the exchanges of trust, the waiting around, the sudden fear, the quick bursts of violence, the desperation.
April 09, 2008
The screen is swamped by a bathetic, self-preening sententiousness.
May 20, 2003
The movie is diffuse and wandering. It's someone telling a long, interesting story who can't get to the point.
February 09, 2006
The film's overall thrust -- angry, intelligent, compassionate -- makes this producer Puttnam's finest movie to date.
September 16, 2015
[A] gripping, intelligent, provocative drama.
January 13, 2014
Every scene of The Killing Fields (and every participant in its making) is in service of showing how abruptly a seemingly safe and vital individual can have everything essential stripped away.
August 25, 2008
It must be nerve-racking for the producers to offer a tale so lacking in standard melodramatic satisfactions. But the result is worth it, for this is the clearest film statement yet on how the nature of heroism has changed in this totalitarian century.
January 09, 2015
Ngor's naturalistic and empathic portrayal of his character's desperate fight for survival is the key to this film's visceral power.
