Irradiated

2020

1h 5m

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"Irradiated" is a danse macabre of historical footage and Butoh performance in which the Cambodian filmmaker reflects on the nature of evil through acts of human cruelty across the 20th century. The radiation of the film's title alludes not only to the atomic bomb but to the use of poison gas in the trenches of World War I, the Nazi death camps, atrocities in Vietnam and Cambodia and to the human stain that lies within everyone: the compulsion to destroy and the urge to forget.

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David Ehrlich

indieWire

A gruesomely effective defense against historical forgetting.

Rated: B+

Mar 3, 2020

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Jessica Kiang

Variety

The individual, often highly shocking sequences of death and destruction become unmoored from what they depict, the better to become small tiles in a bruisingly gargantuan mosaic that only screams that war is hell and human beings unspeakably cruel.

Feb 29, 2020

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Jonathan Romney

Screen International

There can be no doubt about the sincerity, integrity or artistic seriousness of Irradiated, a cri de coeur for an age of conflict by Cambodian-born film-maker Rithy Panh.

Feb 28, 2020

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Erick Estrada

Cinegarage

... Gripping new work by documentary filmmaker Rithy Panh, a statement of principles in the face of our hunger for destruction. [Full review in Spanish]

Jul 18, 2023

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

A kind of Godardian screen essay musing on the last century or so of global atrocities, whose visuals are presented in widescreen triptych form.

Sep 23, 2022

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Redmond Bacon

Cultured Vultures

The only documentary in the Berlinale Competition, the devastating Irradiés more than deserves its inclusionc

Rated: 8/10

Feb 28, 2020

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Synopsis

"Irradiated" is a danse macabre of historical footage and Butoh performance in which the Cambodian filmmaker reflects on the nature of evil through acts of human cruelty across the 20th century. The radiation of the film's title alludes not only to the atomic bomb but to the use of poison gas in the trenches of World War I, the Nazi death camps, atrocities in Vietnam and Cambodia and to the human stain that lies within everyone: the compulsion to destroy and the urge to forget.

Director: Rithy Panh
Screenwriter: Christophe Bataille, Rithy Panh, Agnès Sénémaud
Production Co: Catherine Dussart Production
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 5m

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