Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll Full Movie

Paul B 03 May 2015

Brilliant film. Perfect blend of Music, history and culture. Did not expect as much back story, but the movie brought to life the singers and a time before Pol Pot that I was barely old enought to remember. What on the surface appears to be a hipster music documentary is actually a beautifully edited narrative of the rise of culture during a period of great upheaval and the resiliency of the Khmer people's though times of dynamic cultural and political change. visually the film is stunning. The bright hires and technicolor of Phenom Phen in the 50's through 70's giving way to the washed out grainy black and white of the Pol Pot era. Chilling. I was lucky to see one of the liver performances by the surviving musicians interviewed in the film. Their music and intelligent reflection were evident both in the film and live context. the music killed as well.

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Mark W 19 Apr 2015

Excellent look inside the popular music of Cambodia in the 50s to 70s. Loved the use of graphics and record covers.

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Brian Y 26 Apr 2016

This is a very well-done film/documentary about Cambodia's thriving music scene during the 1960's and 70's, and how the political events and war in the 1970's affected everything. I went in not knowing what to expect, I had only known of singer Sinn Sisamouth previously, and came out very impressed with the film. It was very insightful, meaningful to me, and it filled in a lot of gaps in my knowledge of Cambodian history, especially of the music scene and popular singers of that era. Very profound and well-made film!

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David F 27 Sep 2016

I'd been waiting to see this documentary for a long time, building up my expectations, which is why it was a bit of a let down. It is a very good presentation of two and a half decades of the music that emerged during Cambodia's "heyday" but as the availability of film from that era is unfortunately low (and some of those that made it are of low quality) a lot of the video is of album covers and photographs. There are also a number of recently filmed backdrops, but made to look old, to the music. However, the title could have been stretched to show how the music hasn't been forgotten by showcasing such bands as Dengue Fever and the Cambodian Space Project, both of whom have taken the music, and modern versions of it, to international audiences in other parts of Asia, and to North America, Europe, and Australia.

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Pat Padua 30 Aug 2018

Preserves the memory of musicians who paid the ultimate price for making people dance.

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