The Venerable W.
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| Les Films du Losange | Release Date: January 4, 2019 |
Starring:
Abdul Rasheed, Ashin Wirathu, Aung San Suu Kyi, Bulle Ogier, Carlos Sardiña-Galache, Kyaw Zayar Htun, Matthew Smith, U. Galonni, U. Kaylar Sa, U. Zanitar
Summary:
A view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhist through the portrait of Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, the leader of the anti-Muslim movement in Myanmar.
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The Guardian
Jan 1, 2019
Jan 3, 2019
Schroeder’s approach is calm, almost detached, in keeping with his other work (although the choice of de Medeiros to speak for Buddhism, and with a nonspecific Asian-seeming accent at that, struck me as an avoidable misstep); this makes the bleakness of what he recounts (which is buttressed by an insinuatingly menacing score by Jorge Arriagada) that much more resonant.
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Jan 3, 2019
“Evil” is one of those tricky words usually best avoided, since its quasi-mythological sense of moral absolutism tends to downplay the human agency involved. Yet as Barbet Schroeder well knows, there are times when no other term properly conveys the insidious nature of intolerance and carnage robed in the trappings of power.
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Jan 3, 2019
Those who believe that all Buddhists respect their religion's core principles of peace and tolerance should take a look at The Venerable W (Le Venerable W), director Barbet Schroeder’s eye-opening chronicle of one Burmese monk’s long campaign of racism and violence against his country’s minority Muslim population.
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Jan 3, 2019
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