Inspelad under loppet av 23 år är denna film den extraordinära berättelsen om en familjs resa från det krigsdrabbade Laos till de hårda gatorna i staden New York.
2008-11-21 Cinema Guild
"Exploring a Lao family's experience during and since the Vietnam War, the film chronicles the treacheries of geopolitics and the upheaval of exile." (LAT)
"Though an admirable attempt to allow the characters to tell their own story in their own voices, docu may be a bit too freely associative, as it becomes difficult at times to identify individual characters... Picture's second half, which proceeds in a more linear fashion, is resolutely gripping." (VAR)
"The result is imperfect, but its roughness is entirely consistent with the way the filmmakers understand the traumatic experiences of displacement, loss and deprivation. (NYT)