Movie #: Title:   Year: 2004         IMDB mediatype
Genre: Director:     IMDB   Rating:      Box Set? box set?

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1353 Dogora.mp40:00866
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Synopsis

Dogora: Ouvrons Les Yeux is a documentary feature which ruminates on life, a film without narrative which uses the powerful combination of imagery and music to tell its story. Directed by Patrice Leconte, who was inspired to make the film after an eye-opening visit, Dogora is a film about Cambodia: its people, the landscape, and the culture. By focusing on the lives of everyday Cambodians as they go about their daily business – eating, sleeping, working, playing, travelling – Dogora provides the world with an intimate, realistic portrait of a still largely undiscovered culture, which is still best-known to the West for its bloody history under the Khmer Rouge regime, and the iconic images of the beautiful Angkor Wat temple which adorns the nation’s flag.  

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The film’s subtitle, “Ouvrons Les Yeux”, is translated as “Let Us Open The Eyes”, which in many ways could not be a more apt description of the way I feel about Dogora. My eyes have been opened to Perruchon’s music in a big way. The language and stylistics used in the score may be ethnically as removed from the culture of Cambodia as it is possible to be, but the level of excellence in the music itself is beyond reproach.

Track Listing:
Tchunga Ya! (2:18)
Kourni (3:55)
Votsh (1:13)
Dogora (1:59)
Mi Poshka (3:06)
Soukia (3:56)
Koshni (4:45)
Viniashtô Mi (2:52)
Tou Toéshtaké (4:07)
Mira (2:22)
Zdieskani (3:56)
Kiaeché Tchékania (3:04)
Vornia (1:06)
Soutrinka (4:28)
Chälnié (5:22)
La Vidjiame (3:49)
Shtakie (4:02)
Lézou (1:23)
Mié Panosko (3:42)
Donia (3:16)
Souchänishka (3:56)
Running Time: 68 minutes 37 seconds
Music composed by Étienne Perruchon. Conducted by Metodi Matakiev. Performed by The Sofia Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Children’s Choir.