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Vietnam on Film summer
Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoi Cinematheque is hosting a special Vietnam on Film summer
festival featuring the best of the country’s movies and foreign films on
Vietnam .
The films cover a broad range of periods and styles, from classic Vietnamese
feature films to modern French documentaries, to recent shorts by film students.
One of the most classic Vietnamese movies to be shown is the 17 th Parallel Days &
Nights directed by Nguyen Hai Ninh in 1972. Vietnamese actor Tra Giang won a
best actress award for her role in the film at the Moscow Film Festival in 1973.
When the Tenth Month Comes, voted by CNN as one of the top 18 Asian films, by
director Dang Nhat Minh, will also be featured at the festival. A haunting
portrait of one woman’s struggle with loss and personal sacrifice during the
war, the movie is considered by many local and international critics to be the
greatest Vietnamese movie ever made.
The film won the Golden Lotus at the 7 th Vietnam Film Festival in 1985, Special
Prize at the Asia Pacific International Film Festival in 1989, encouragement
certificate at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1985 and Special Prize of
Judge at the Hawaii International Film Festival in 1985.
Another film by Minh, Nostalgia for the Countryside, which explores the tensions
and traumas of everyday life in a rural northern Vietnamese village, will also be
shown. Two more award-winning movies by directors Pham Nhue Giang and Bui Thac
Chuyen were selected for the festival.
Giang’s The Deserted Valley took top prizes at the Vietnam Film Festival in 2002
and was selected to open the International Forum of New Cinema at the 2002 Berlin
International Film Festival.
Shot entirely on location in an ethnic Mong village high in the Hoang Lien Son
mountains, the movie is an emotional tale of two school teachers from Hanoi who
struggle to find meaning in their private and professional lives.
Living in Fear by Chuyen is one of 16 feature films produced in 2006 that won much
critical acclaim. The film won that year’s Golden Kite Awards in all the major
categories. It also won the Best Film Award in the Asian New Talent category at
the 2006 Shanghai Film Festival.
One of the most acclaimed Vietnamese films of the 1980s, The Travelling Circus, was
made by female director Viet Linh.
It won numerous international awards including the Grand Prix at Fribourg Third
World Film Festival; the Audience Award at Uppsala International Film Festival in
Sweden, and First Prize at the Madrid Women’s Film Festival.
With obvious influences from Bergman, DeSica and Fellini, Viet Linh’s movie tells
the bittersweet story of a small travelling circus from Hanoi stopping in an
impoverished ethnic village in Vietnam ’s central highlands.
Through the eyes of a village youth, viewers witness the magic of the circus, and
the naïve hope that illusion can be transformed into reality.
Two French movies shot in Viet Nam Indochine and The Lover will please movie
buffs.
Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film in 1992, Indochine, is an
intimate epic-a tale of passion and revolution in colonial Vietnam .
The first six weeks of filming were done in Vietnam , including the opening
funeral procession near Hanoi , the slave market/bridge scenes at Ha Long Bay
and the Vietnamese marriage ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Hue . Famous
French actress Catherine Deneuve starred in the movie.
The Lover was the first foreign film shot on location in Vietnam after 1975.
It is based on the autobiographical novel by French author Marguerite Duras, whose
youthful real-life romance with a Chinese man in 1920s Sai Gon caused a major
scandal.
Narrated by Jeanne Moreau, The Lover was nominated for an Oscar in 1993 for Best
Cinematography, and won a Cesar in France for Best Music Score.
The documentaries Hearts and Minds, Regret to Inform, Prisoners in the Hanoi
–Hilton , Public Enemy Number One and A Dream in Hanoi will also be shown.
All films will be shown in their original version, with English subtitles. The
festival will run through July and August at 22A Hai Ba Trung Street ,
Hanoi.-Enditem
festival featuring the best of the country’s movies and foreign films on
Vietnam .
The films cover a broad range of periods and styles, from classic Vietnamese
feature films to modern French documentaries, to recent shorts by film students.
One of the most classic Vietnamese movies to be shown is the 17 th Parallel Days &
Nights directed by Nguyen Hai Ninh in 1972. Vietnamese actor Tra Giang won a
best actress award for her role in the film at the Moscow Film Festival in 1973.
When the Tenth Month Comes, voted by CNN as one of the top 18 Asian films, by
director Dang Nhat Minh, will also be featured at the festival. A haunting
portrait of one woman’s struggle with loss and personal sacrifice during the
war, the movie is considered by many local and international critics to be the
greatest Vietnamese movie ever made.
The film won the Golden Lotus at the 7 th Vietnam Film Festival in 1985, Special
Prize at the Asia Pacific International Film Festival in 1989, encouragement
certificate at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1985 and Special Prize of
Judge at the Hawaii International Film Festival in 1985.
Another film by Minh, Nostalgia for the Countryside, which explores the tensions
and traumas of everyday life in a rural northern Vietnamese village, will also be
shown. Two more award-winning movies by directors Pham Nhue Giang and Bui Thac
Chuyen were selected for the festival.
Giang’s The Deserted Valley took top prizes at the Vietnam Film Festival in 2002
and was selected to open the International Forum of New Cinema at the 2002 Berlin
International Film Festival.
Shot entirely on location in an ethnic Mong village high in the Hoang Lien Son
mountains, the movie is an emotional tale of two school teachers from Hanoi who
struggle to find meaning in their private and professional lives.
Living in Fear by Chuyen is one of 16 feature films produced in 2006 that won much
critical acclaim. The film won that year’s Golden Kite Awards in all the major
categories. It also won the Best Film Award in the Asian New Talent category at
the 2006 Shanghai Film Festival.
One of the most acclaimed Vietnamese films of the 1980s, The Travelling Circus, was
made by female director Viet Linh.
It won numerous international awards including the Grand Prix at Fribourg Third
World Film Festival; the Audience Award at Uppsala International Film Festival in
Sweden, and First Prize at the Madrid Women’s Film Festival.
With obvious influences from Bergman, DeSica and Fellini, Viet Linh’s movie tells
the bittersweet story of a small travelling circus from Hanoi stopping in an
impoverished ethnic village in Vietnam ’s central highlands.
Through the eyes of a village youth, viewers witness the magic of the circus, and
the naïve hope that illusion can be transformed into reality.
Two French movies shot in Viet Nam Indochine and The Lover will please movie
buffs.
Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film in 1992, Indochine, is an
intimate epic-a tale of passion and revolution in colonial Vietnam .
The first six weeks of filming were done in Vietnam , including the opening
funeral procession near Hanoi , the slave market/bridge scenes at Ha Long Bay
and the Vietnamese marriage ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Hue . Famous
French actress Catherine Deneuve starred in the movie.
The Lover was the first foreign film shot on location in Vietnam after 1975.
It is based on the autobiographical novel by French author Marguerite Duras, whose
youthful real-life romance with a Chinese man in 1920s Sai Gon caused a major
scandal.
Narrated by Jeanne Moreau, The Lover was nominated for an Oscar in 1993 for Best
Cinematography, and won a Cesar in France for Best Music Score.
The documentaries Hearts and Minds, Regret to Inform, Prisoners in the Hanoi
–Hilton , Public Enemy Number One and A Dream in Hanoi will also be shown.
All films will be shown in their original version, with English subtitles. The
festival will run through July and August at 22A Hai Ba Trung Street ,
Hanoi.-Enditem
