Posts Tagged ‘Holly’

OPEN YOUR EYES

November 28, 2007

‘Holly’ takes us on a guided tour of what’s crappy about Cambodia
For a movie about the child sex trade in Cambodia, Holly is mercifully easy on the stomach. Guy Moshe’s film is shot on location, sometimes in actual brothels, but doesn’t aspire to verisimilitude. Instead, it focuses on the adventure of a 14-year-old Vietnamese girl [...]

“HOLLY” IS NOT A HOLIDAY MOVIE, PER SE

November 24, 2007

Its deck-the-halls-with-boughs-of title notwithstanding, the independent film Holly has nothing to do with the holiday season — unless you count the fact that this just-barely-fictionalized movie about the heartbreaking world of child prostitution in Cambodia opened on Black Friday.
The Press-Telegram’s story on the film reveals that the title role of Holly, a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl who has been sold [...]

 

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