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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertWhat I've come away with is a notion of a land which, despite its crushing problems, has produced a population that seems extraordinarily radiant.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThis documentary is not just interesting, but timely.
- 75Slant MagazineSlant MagazineThe images and interviews Robert H. Lieberman and his crew have managed to capture are eye-opening enough to justify the dangerous effort.
- A compelling portrait of an entire nation being kept in captivity and ignorance.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceAnd yet it still works, so buoyed is the film by its open and honest take on a subject that would have been all too easy to turn into another marketable tragedy.
- Robert H. Lieberman, a novelist, filmmaker and professor at Cornell University, took three years to shoot documentary footage surreptitiously during assignments for the United States Embassy and a nongovernment organization. The result is eye-opening and insightful.
- 63Washington PostMichael O'SullivanWashington PostMichael O'SullivanA solid and subtly moving portrait of the people of Burma.
- 60Time OutTime OutOnly Lieberman's intrusive, slightly arrogant onscreen presence distracts from the profile, introducing an unwanted hint of American privilege to the film's perspective.