Movie Review The Betrayal

By Owen Gleiberman (EW.com)

In 1981, Thavisouk Phrasavath, his mother, and eight siblings - all survivors of the war in Laos - arrived in Brooklyn, where they'd been promised a home by U.S. officials. Ellen Kuras' documentary The Betrayal jumps between the '80s, when the family struggled to make a go of it (Phrasavath, who helped shoot this footage, is credited as codirector), and the present, when Phrasavath learns that his father, a CIA recruit and victim of Laotian reeducation camps, is still alive and has a family in Florida. The past-and-present layering is a lot more resonant - and less sketchy - than the film's theme of betrayal, both familial and governmental.

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