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The Venerable W.
Directed by
Barbet Schroeder
PG
2017
1h 47m
Documentary
7.1
100%
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A view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhist through the portrait of the Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, leader of anti-Muslim movement in Myanmar.
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Cast of The Venerable W.
Bulle Ogier
Petite voix bouddhiste (voice)
Barbet Schroeder
Narrateur (voice)
Ashin Wirathu
Himself
The Venerable W. Ratings & Reviews
Dare Daniel
Daniel Barnes
This is just as pungently intimate a portrayal of evil as Schroeder's career-defining 1974 documentary General Idi Amin Dada.
Slant Magazine
Keith Watson
There's an ever-present sense of rage and despair burbling beneath the placid surface of Barbet Schroeder's film.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
In a sense, this is the most terrifying of Schroder's portraits.
The Hollywood Reporter
Jordan Mintzer
[An] eye-opening chronicle of one Burmese monk's long campaign of racism and violence against his country's minority Muslim population.
Variety
Jay Weissberg
Barbet Schroeder completes his Trilogy of Evil with this chilling look at the Buddhist monk whose Islamophobic rhetoric is stoking ethnic cleaning in Myanmar.
Asian Movie Pulse
Panos Kotzathanasis
Succeeds in depicting the true sociopath (psychopath if you prefer) that Ashin Wirathu is, largely explaining a significant part of the issues Myanmar faces at the moment, while giving a definite answer to the question "Can a Buddhist be evil?.
The Daily Beast
Nico Hines
A heart-stopping look at a man who has helped to push a community to the brink of collapse through nationalism and anti-Islamic hatred.
The New York Review of Books
Gavin Jacobson
This is an important documentary that not only illuminates the rank underbelly of Theravada Buddhism in Myanmar, but also captures one of the first major tests faced by the new political order, especially regarding freedom of speech and assembly.
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