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White Building
Directed by
Kavich Neang
NR
2021
90m
Drama
6.5
95%
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Samnang, 20, faces the demolition of his lifelong home in Phnom Penh and the pressures from family, friends, and neighbors which arise and intersect in this moment of sudden change.
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Cast of White Building
Piseth Chhun
Samnang
Sithan Hout
Samnang's Father
Sokha Uk
Samnang's Mother
Chinnaro Soem
Ah Kha
Sovann Tho
Tol
Jany Min
Kanha
Chandalin Y
Kavich Neang
Director / Writer
Daniel Mattes
Writer
Davy Chou
Producer
Marine Arrighi de Casanova
Producer
Loy Te
Producer
Rotha Moeng
Producer
White Building Ratings & Reviews
East Bay Express
Kelly Vance
The images give Neang's cityscape a tinge of doomed romanticism.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
...it's a graceful first feature with a poetical sense of loss that lingers after the final credit crawl...
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Stephanie Bunbury
Neang shows a remarkable confidence as a first-time feature director in conveying, through expertly timed silences and pauses, the tension seething below the smooth surface of things.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
...beautiful feature debut, an urban elegy about what's thick in the air when the home one has always known is not long for the world.
Spectrum Culture
Pat Padua
In the affluent West, such aspirations might manifest in a Step Up movie, but Neang's characters are heartbreaking; you really feel for their plight, and marvel at how lucky you are.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The movie seems lived-in; its virtually tactile details and its trenchantly analytical dialogue feel like intimate aspects of the filmmaker's audiovisual, emotional, and intellectual experience.
New York Times
Austin Considine
The film's loose plotting and secondary character development can leave a few too many hanging threads, but its sense of place is so palpable you can almost smell the smoky city markets, the sweat, the hormones.
The Film Stage
Alistair Ryder
This critique of gentrification largely remains implicit, visible only allegorically through their daily struggles.
In Review Online
Daniel Gorman
Still, despite some quibbles, this is a strong fiction feature debut for Neang ... White Building understands the plight of an increasingly modern world that is constantly leaving its most vulnerable denizens behind.
Slant Magazine
Derek Smith
The films depiction of life impacted by urban transformation conjures a palpable aura of entrapment and helplessness.
The Film Verdict
Jay Weissberg
Kavich Neangs depiction of a traditional society moving from the stasis of trauma to parasitic capitalism is palpably felt, but the film's fitful energy and sympathetic yet undynamic characters work against the audiences emotional investment.
Asian Movie Pulse
Panos Kotzathanasis
"White Building" is a well shot (the production names include Jia Zhangke and Davy Chou), well-directed in its combination of drama and documentary aesthetics, and well-acted movie and in general, a very interesting title on a number of levels
The Film Experience
Nathaniel Rogers
Though it's steeped in sobering reality, White Building also knows when to switch things up with an unsettling dream sequence or a colorful daydream just this side of life as Samnang knows it.
Variety
Jessica Kiang
"White Building" is a slow-cinema eulogy for Phnom Penh's recent past, but it's in its livelier moments that Neang lays claim to the Cambodian art-house future.
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