Rice People

Rice People
For the 1957 Japanese film, see The Rice People.
Rice People

The DVD cover.
Directed by Rithy Panh
Produced by Jacques Bidou
Pierre-Alain Meier
Written by Shahnon Ahmad (novel)
Ève Deboise
Rithy Panh
Starring Peng Phan
Mom Soth
Chhim Naline
Music by Jean-Claude Brisson
Marc Marder
Cinematography Jacques Bouquin
Editing by Andrée Davanture
Marie-Christine Rougerie
Distributed by Facets Video
Release date(s) France May 1994
Canada September 15, 1994
United Kingdom June 9, 1995
Running time 125 minutes
Country Cambodia
Language Khmer

Rice People (Khmer: អ្នកស្រែ, Neak sre) is a 1994 Cambodian drama film directed and co-written by Rithy Panh. Adapted from the 1966 novel Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan (No Harvest But a Thorn), by Malaysian author Shahnon Ahmad, which is set in the Malaysian state of Kedah, Rice People is the story of a rural family in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia, struggling to bring in a single season's rice crop. It was filmed in the Cambodian village of Kamreang, in the Kien Svay and Boeung Thom areas of Kandal Province near Phnom Penh, on the banks of the Mekong River. The cast features both professional and non-professional actors.

The film premiered in the main competition at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and was submitted to the 67th Academy Awards, the first time a Cambodian film had been submitted as a possible nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.

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Plot

In Cambodia, where families were torn apart in the communist Khmer Rouge's genocidal bid to transform the country into an agrarian utopia, it is ironic that people have lost touch with the land. For a generation of children, the rice comes not from the ground, but from a sack, offloaded from the back of a United Nations relief truck.

So it is in these uncertain times, that a Cambodian family is attempting to grow rice. The father, Pouev, is concerned that the family's plot of land is shrinking, and he might not be able to grow a big enough crop.

The mother, Om, is worried for her husband, and her worst fears are confirmed when Poeuv steps on a poisonous thorn, and then, after a protracted period of being bedridden, dies of infection.

Om is unable to handle the pressure of being the head of the family, nor does she have the strength to tend to the rice fields. She turns to alcohol and gambling and is eventually locked up for her mental illness.

Responsibility for bringing in the crop and raising her six sisters falls on the oldest girl, Sakha.

Cast

  • Peng Phan as Om
  • Mom Soth as Poeuv
  • Chhim Naline as Sakha
  • Va Simorn as Sokhoeun
  • Sophy Sodany as Sokhon
  • Muong Danyda as Sophon
  • Pen Sopheary as Sophoeun
  • Proum Mary as Sophat
  • Sam Kourour as Sopheap

Release

Rice People premiered at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival in the main competition for the Palme d'Or,[1] a prize that went to Pulp Fiction. The film had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The film was submitted to the 67th Academy Awards as a possible nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, the first time a Cambodian film had been submitted to the Academy Awards.

References

  1. ^ "Rithy Panh". Cannes Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. http://web.archive.org/web/20070929095605/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/index.php/en/archives/artist/13982. Retrieved 2007-07-13. 

External links


v · d · eFilms of Rithy Panh
Site 2 (1989) • Cambodge, entre guerre et paix (1991) • Rice People (1994) • Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy (1996) • One Evening After the War (1998) • The Land of the Wandering Souls (2000) • Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre (2001) • S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003) • The People of Angkor (2003) • The Burnt Theatre (2005) • Le papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise (2007) • Un barrage contre le Pacifique (2008)
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