LE PAPIER NE PEUT PAS ENVELOPPER LA BRAISE
France, Cambodia
Cambodia, Phnom Penh, a district where women sell their bodies, often abused by their clients or even their guards - we are meat given to tigers, says one of them. For most of the day, they sleep or hold long discussions about fear from diseases and violence. The director of the film perceives transformation of the body into goods as spiritual death and shoots the documentary as a requiem in which prostitutes become symbols of social disparities in a country that still has not managed to get rid of the sequels of Pol Pot’s tyranny.
Cambodia, Phnom Penh, a district where women sell their bodies, often abused by their clients or even their guards - we are meat given to tigers, says one of them. For most of the day, they sleep or hold long discussions about fear from diseases and violence. The director of the film perceives transformation of the body into goods as spiritual death and shoots the documentary as a requiem in which prostitutes become symbols of social disparities in a country that still has not managed to get rid of the sequels of Pol Pot’s tyranny.
