Dogora

Aroview: A filmic mediatation on Cambodia, loosely in the style of BARAKA, for which dir. Leconte travelled to the formerly wartorn country to capture the everyday lives of ordinary people in a nation filled with colour, movement and visual drama.

Although edited to an orchestral and choral score composed by Étienne Perruchon (and sung in a language of his own devising), this feels less distanced and didactic than the similar works of Ron Fricke or Godfrey Reggio. Instead Leconte avoids many of the obviously spectacular subjects of Cambodia (eg. Angkor Wat) and aims for a street-level feel, investigated with a humane curiosity.

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