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THE FORSAKEN LAND
THE FORSAKEN LAND
 
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Winner of the prestigious Camera d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, Vimukthi Jayasundara''s astonishing debut captures the disorienting quality of daily life during the endless period of civil war in Sri Lanka. As a cease-fire develops between the Sinhala government and the Tamil Tigers, Jayasundara focuses his camera on mysterious, often elusive images of death, sex, and the stresses that accompany an uneasy stasis. "Beautiful but withholding... [Jayasundara''s] command of film language is evident and his evocation of postwar trauma is haunting" (J. Hoberman, Village Voice).

Vimukthi Jayasundara---Sri Lanka---2005---108 mins.