Synopsis
Filmmakers expose the horrifying mass executions of accused communists in Indonesia and those who are celebrated in their country for perpetrating the crime.
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Cast
- Anwar CongoSelf
- Herman KotoSelf
- Syamsul ArifinSelf
- Ibrahim SinikSelf
- Yapto SoerjosoemarnoSelf
- Safit PardedeSelf
- Jusuf KallaSelf
- Adi ZulkadrySelf
- Haji AnifSelf
- Sakhyan AsmaraSelf
Recommandations
- 100
The Guardian
It is a gut-churning film: and a radical dive into history, grabbing the past in a way a conventional documentary would not. - 100
The Playlist
Presenting a terrifying view of a hidden holocaust and a moral apocalypse in which the most basic humanities have become twisted beyond recognition, The Act of Killing is a towering achievement in filmmaking, documentary or otherwise. - 100
Village Voice
More terrifying than any horror film, and more intellectually adventurous than just about any 2013 release so far, The Act of Killing is a major achievement, a work about genocide that rightly earns its place alongside Shoah as a supreme testament to the cinema's capacity for inquiry, confrontation, and remembrance. - 91
IndieWire
Playing make believe with murderers, Oppenheimer risks the possibility of empowering them. However, by humanizing psychopathic behavior, The Act of Killing is unparalleled in its unsettling perspective on the dementias associated with dictatorial extremes. - 90
New York Magazine (Vulture)
The resulting film is bizarre to the point of trippiness, yet it’s one of the most lucid portraits of evil I’ve ever seen. - 88
Slant Magazine
In Joshua Oppenheimer's extraordinary The Act of Killing, film becomes the medium for a bold historical reckoning--and in more ways than one. - 80
Variety
Never before has anyone made a documentary like The Act of Killing, and the filmmakers seem at a loss in terms of how to organize the many threads of what they capture...Still, essential and enraging, The Act of Killing is a film that begs to be seen, then never watched again. - 80
The Telegraph
You’ve never seen a documentary like The Act of Killing. If you saw too many like it, your hold on sanity might fray, which is not so much the film’s fault as that of its bloodcurdling subject. This movie is essential.
