A beautiful reporter goes to the front line to find a soldier with whom she fell in love through correspondences. Read More »
Tag Archives: Vietnam
The Lover (1992) Jean-Jacques Annaud, Jane March
It is French Colonial Vietnam in 1929. A young French girl from a family that is having Read More »
Owl and the Sparrow (2007) Stephane Gauger, Cat Ly, The Lu Le, Han Thi Pham
A child’s resilience and the kindness of strangers. Thuy is 10, an orphan, working in her uncle’s factory outside Saigon. Read More »
The Quiet American (2002) Phillip Noyce, Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Thi Hai Yen Do
British Thomas Fowler enjoys his life in Saigon working as a reporter for the London Times Read More »
The Vertical Ray of the Sun / Mùa hè chieu thang dung (2000) Anh Hung Tran, Nu Yên-Khê Tran, Quynh Nhu, Khanh Le
With the brilliant Vietnamese summer as a setting Vertical Ray of the Sun is beautiful from beginning to end. Read More »
Hollow / Doat hon (2014) Ham Tran, Kieu Chinh, Jayvee Mai The Hiep, Nguyen Hong An
A young girl falls into a river and drowns. When her body is found in a remote village Read More »
The Scent of Green Papaya / Mùi du du xanh (1993) Tran Anh Hung, Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Man San Lu, Thi Loc Truong
A little girl, Mui, went to a house as a new servant. The mother still mourns the death of her daughter Read More »
Song lang (2018) Leon Le, Kim Chi, Isaac, Vu T. Le Thi
It’s 1980s in Saigon. Linh Phung is a star of a traveling Cai-luong Read More »
The Girl on the River / Cô gái trên sông (1987) Dang Nhat Minh, Duong Dinh Chau, Minh Chau, Le Dung Nhi
A woman reporter named Lien interviews a former wartime prostitute from South Vietnam named Nguyet Read More »
Travelling Circus / Gánh xiec rong (1988) Linh Viet, Thé Anh, Son Bac, Khuong Be
Viet Linh tells the bittersweet story of a little traveling circus from Hanoi Read More »