Following her mother’s death, manga artist Soriya travels to her ancestral home in Phnom Penh, with hopes of reconnecting with her distant family and using the visit as inspiration for her work. All goes well initially. Renting an apartment in Metta, a rundown Khmer Rouge-era housing complex, her visit to her maternal relatives finds her welcomed with open arms. But Soriya’s waking hours in the apartment and its surroundings are punctuated by terrifying, bloody visions, almost as though she were a conduit for horrors of the past wanting to seep into the present. Inrasothythep Neth and Sokyou Chea’s blood-chilling psychological horror explores a personal and political past through the present, transforming a characterful space into an insidious environment. Surrounded by modern high-rises, this decrepit structure, with its brutalist architecture and peeling surfaces, is a relic from a dark period in history whose painful memories it has absorbed. In tracing Soriya’s ominous journey back to her roots, Tenement hints at a necessary reckoning with Cambodia’s political past without overplaying its historical dimension. It’s an impressive work from a woefully underrepresented national cinema.
娜奥米·阿基,查宁·塔图姆,克里斯蒂安·史莱特,西蒙·雷克斯,阿德里娅·阿霍纳,凯尔·麦克拉克伦,海利·乔·奥斯蒙,吉娜·戴维斯,阿莉雅·肖卡特,莱文·霍克,索尔·威廉姆斯,特鲁·马伦,利兹·卡瑞贝尔,朱力安·塞奇威克
Graham Skipper
杰玛·阿特登,本·巴恩斯,莱丝利·曼维尔,马克·斯特朗,阿尔弗雷德·伊诺奇,伊恩·麦克莱恩,萝玛拉·嘉瑞,克莱尔·斯金纳,马修·科特尔,碧悠·加德斯顿,尼基什·帕特尔,丽贝卡·格辛斯,伊娃·马格亚,杰伊·辛普森,雅各布·詹姆斯·贝西克,尼古拉斯·毕绍普,阿尔比·马伯,格兰特·克鲁克斯,黛布拉·吉列特,乔·科恩,格里芬·史蒂文斯