Joshua Oppenheimer’s two documentaries about the genocidal campaigns in Indonesia in 1965-66 are so haunting and terrible – the leering mask withdrawn to show something even more monstrous underneath – I don’t know if I can see them again. But they definitely push the boundaries of documentary film-making into new and controversial arenas. This is his first narrative feature, and it’s a dystopian musical! I don’t think it really works, ultimately, but I am here for the experimentation and I am open to what he was trying to do. I reviewed for Ebert.
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