Over the past two years, director Robert H. Lieberman has been secretly filming scenes of everyday life in Myanmar, and the film is a richly textured look behind its borders. Lieberman shows us a devoutly Buddhist culture that is more or less untouched by corporate influence but lives in severe poverty under a military dictatorship. Aside from some cursory history lessons,
Myanmar doesn't delve too deeply into how the country came to be like it is. But it's a postcard-pretty crash course on a place that most of us know very little about. (BRENDAN KILEY)
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They Call It Myanmar: Behind the Curtain of the Former Burma
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