2016 · drama · cambodian
Diamond Island
Directed by Davy Chou1h 41m2016
Bora, an 18-year-old, leaves his village to work on the construction sites of Diamond Island, a project for an ultra-modern paradise for the rich and a symbol of tomorrow’s Cambodia. He befriends his fellow workers and finds his elder brother, the charismatic Solei, who went missing five years earlier. Solei introduces him into an exciting world, that of an urban and wealthy youth, its girls, nights and illusions.
Our read: Diamond Island (2016) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · cambodian entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, measured drama / cambodian, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- intimate
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