Onlookers

[Screens Jan. 21 at 3:15 p.m. and Jan. 23 at 11 a.m. at Treasure Mountain Inn, 255 Main Street, Park City, Utah, as part of the 2023 Slamdance Film Festival that runs Jan. 20-29; for more information, log on to http://slamdance.com.] Beautiful cinematography and scenery highlight Kimi Takesue's captivating, poignant, insightful, fascinating, 72-minute documentary that follows tourists as they sightsee in Laos but not really seeing as they take photographs, ride in a hot air balloon, drive land rovers, go ziplining, eat at restaurants, travel on riverboats, buy souvenirs and postcards, and occasionally intermingle with locals while Laotians try to go about their daily lives.
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