Rithy Panh – Le papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise AKA Paper cannot wrap ember (2007)
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During the last half-century, Cambodia has witnessed genocide, decades of war and the collapse of social order. Now, documentary filmmaker Rithy Panh looks at an irreparable tragedy that is less visible, yet no less pervasive: the spiritual death that results when young women are forced into prostitution. Angry and impassioned, PAPER CANNOT WRAP UP EMBERS presents the searing stories of poor Asian women whose lives were violated and their destinies destroyed when their bodies were turned into items of sexual commerce.
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A timeworn building in Phnom Penh. Women are waiting for their next client, and death. Rithy Panh’s camera will give them the opportunity to leave their trace on a situation as well-known as it is rarely portrayed.
The director of S21, The Khmer Rouge Death Machine gives us another documentary which is neither historical nor didactical. No dates, no archives pictures, only human beings ; actors and subjects of their own distress. Rithy Panh accompanies and directs, with reserve, the situation of these women who have given up. Words thus take his place in the film, with incredible sentences : “Whoever sleeps with me sleeps with a dead woman”. But Rithy Panh is above all a director of the body. He works with the flesh, the gesture and its inner violence. We‘ll never see any client or any pimp, only the prostitutes imitating the scenes they endure every day. This reinterpretation is characteristic of the filmmaker who asked the executioners of S21 to re-enact scenes of torture.
Paper Cannot Wrap Embers follows a similar direction to The Actors of the Burned Theatre, which means the never-ending question of the trail, the imprint. This cinematographic questioning par excellence takes on its full meaning when the prostitutes create an ephemeral print of their red lips on the concrete wall.
Rithy Panh is in no way a passive filmmaker. He is the companion, the scribe, the ultimate witness for the speech of these women who are dying in silence.
Thierry Lebas
Le Papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise (Rithy Panh - 2007).avi
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Container: AVI
Runtime: 1h 26mn
Size: 1.46 GiB
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Codec: XviD
Resolution: 672x368
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Bit rate: 2 218 Kbps
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Language(s):Cambodian
Subtitles:English, French
