Renowned Khmer filmmaker Rithy Panh directed and co-wrote this striking, neo-realist, French-Cambodian love story. ‘One Evening After the War’ (French title: ‘Un Soir Après La Guerre’) is set in 1992’s destitute Cambodia, still coming to terms with the genocide and civil war of the last decades.
The male lead Sovannah, in his late twenties, returns home to an impoverished Phnom Penh after fighting the Khmer Rouge soldiers in the western part of the country. He starts a romance with a beer girl, the 19-year old Srey Poeuv, working in a dance bar, indebted to the owner of the seedy establishment. Sovannah tries his luck kick-boxing again, to get her out of debt, but ultimately resorts to a consequential criminal-act with an ex-soldier associate in the hopes of rasing enough money for Srey Poeuv.
‘One Evening After the War’ was screened in the ‘Un Certain Regard’ section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. A short excerpt from the film can be found on Vimeo.
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