Un Soir apres la guerre (1999) **

Directed by Rithy Panh. With Chea Lyda Chan, Narith Roeun and Ratha Keo. The plot is hardly original - a former soldier (now a boxer/gangster/butcher) falls in love with a beautiful prostitute - but the film is quite good, with beautiful scenery and a slow, but mesmerizing tempo. Unfortunately, an action-movie ending almost ruins what until then has been a tender romantic melodrama.