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The Land of the Wandering Souls rating 
/5 The Land of the Wandering Souls

   
Director Rilthy Panh
Certificate NC
Running time 99 minutes
Country France
Year 1999
Associated shops

Reviewed by Rebort

Documentary following the laying of the first fibre optic cables across Cambodia by poor families paid by the metre. The cable is treated as and becomes a metaphor for the meeting of the past and the future, especially when skeletons from the war are found as the cable is being laid.

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