79
Metascore
8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- As expressionistic as it is journalistic, Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten triumphs as both an objective record and a poetic lament: It’s a film that’s every bit as entrancing and haunting as the lost music it celebrates.
- 90The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottMr. Pirozzi’s film is an unsparing and meticulous reckoning of the effects of tyranny on ordinary Cambodians. It is also a rich and defiant effort at recovery, showing that even the most murderous totalitarianism cannot fully erase the human drive for pleasure and self-expression.
- 90Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekVillage VoiceStephanie ZacharekDon't Think I've Forgotten is a testament to how much a song can mean: You can destroy the vinyl it's been recorded on, but the sound itself, and all it stands for, is indestructible. Groove is in the heart.
- 75Washington PostMichael O'SullivanWashington PostMichael O'SullivanWhat happened to almost an entire generation of musicians in Cambodia isn’t a scandal. As “Forgotten” makes powerfully, passionately clear, it’s a tragedy.
- There is a surprise waiting in Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten, a labor of love that Pirozzi painstakingly assembled over a span of close to a decade, although the story it tells holds no mystery.
- 70The DissolveScott TobiasThe DissolveScott TobiasDon’t Think I’ve Forgotten could stand to be a tighter, punchier assemblage of music and talking heads, but Pirozzi has gathered an impressive array of surviving musicians and family members willing to talk about the targeting of artists for propaganda and death.
- 70Los Angeles TimesMartin TsaiLos Angeles TimesMartin TsaiThe film proves much more valuable as a historical allegory than as a musical survey.
- 67Austin ChronicleAustin ChronicleJohn Pirozzi purportedly spent nine years gathering material for the project, and the film spotlights musicians and performers who would have been completely forgotten if not for this enterprise.