Dogora
Dogora
Director: Patrice LECONTE
Neither fiction nor documentary, DOGORA is a unique musical, impressionistic and humanist journey - an experimental postcard from Cambodia, created by one of France’s most prolific and acclaimed directors, Patrice Leconte (Monsieur Hire, Ridicule, The Girl On The Bridge, The Man On The Train).
DOGORA celebrates the landscapes and lives of everyday Cambodian people – eating, sleeping, working, playing and traveling. Images of poverty are there – women working in a sweatshop, people scavenging through a rubbish dump – as are more familiar scenes of Angkor Wat and other tourist centres.
Filmed on Panavision HD, with Leconte himself helming the camera, the cinemascope imagery is stunning. The film bursts with colour, life and movement; the telephoto lenses used to great effect. Composer Etienne Perruchon’s powerful oratorio (featuring a choir of hundreds of children) drives the fast-moving montage images. DOGORA is very much in the tradition of the work of Godfrey Reggio and Ron Fricke (Koyaanisqatsi, Baraka), however the rich visual eye, gift for drawing out beauty and intuitive feel for montage is unmistakably Leconte’s own.
France 2004 - Documentary (80 mins)
Director: Patrice Leconte