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‘Golden Slumbers,’ A Film About Cambodian Cinema - NYTimes.com

Often a documentary tackles a topic that, however tempting, poses visual challenges (or exhausts the imagination of the filmmaker). That problem is the focus of “Golden Slumbers,” a film about Cambodian cinema, a history wiped clean by the Khmer Rouge. In the hands of the filmmaker Davy Chou, that vanished past becomes a remembered fantasy, expressing the absence of much more than a couple of hundred missing melodramas.