Meeting with Pol Pot

Name: Meeting with Pol Pot
Genre: Drama
Released: June 13, 2025
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 83

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: June 13, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) - 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime’s leader, Pol Pot. The country seems ideal. But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country. The regime is looking forDemocratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) - 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime’s leader, Pol Pot. The country seems ideal. But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country. The regime is looking for culprits, secretly carrying out a large scale genocide. Under the eyes of the journalists, the beautiful picture cracks, revealing the horror. Their journey progressively turns into a nightmare. Meeting with Pol Pot was freely inspired by journalist Elizabeth Becker's account in When The War Was Over.
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Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 112 min

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The Film Stage Nirris Nagendrarajah

Jun 11, 2025

In a time where authoritarianism is rampant, genocides are actively taking place, and journalists daily risk their lives giving voice to the victims of history, Meeting with Pol Pot is a noble, timely, incendiary counter-narrative that devises a way to look forward by making a project of the past, where the act of re-imagining the truth radically remembers the traces left behind by a lost generation. Read full review

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Siddhant Adlakha

May 29, 2025

The result is a hauntingly timeless depiction of power and its mechanisms, filtered down to an intimate tale of journalistic integrity. Read full review

Robert Abele

Jun 24, 2025

Power shields its misdeeds with propaganda, but Panh sees such murderous lies clearly, giving them an honest staging, thick with echoes. Read full review

The Film Verdict Clarence Tsui

May 29, 2025

Unfolding with faint whiffs of film noir, Meeting with Pol Pot boasts powerful performances from its cast, with Irène Jacob (Double Life of Veronique) and Cyril Gueï playing journalists whose professional demeanour unravels rapidly as they contend with the consequences of the Khmer Rouge’s atrocities. Read full review

Allan Hunter

May 29, 2025

The thriller-like intrigue in Meeting With Pol Pot is sustained by tension around whether the title event will ever actually happen and, ultimately, whether any of the trio will make it out alive. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Jun 12, 2025

Panh powerfully interweaves real footage of starvation and mass death — sometimes projecting it behind the characters or matching it to Paul’s eyeline. He also brings back the main conceit of “The Missing Picture,” which used clay figurines to depict certain events. Read full review

Chris Barsanti

Jun 8, 2025

Rithy Panh’s film is hard-hitting yet illusive, much like the story its characters are hunting. Read full review

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