Viet and Nam

In mythologising Vietnam, the country can be split into two: Việt, holding the breadth of Vietnamese spirit, and Nam, the South, and the word for male. Vietnam has long seemed a land torn between its own desires and the shadows of colonialism cast over its collective mind.…

lykonos

raising my hand at the q&a and asking what happened

Sara

QCINEMA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #12 Kudos to anyone who can fully understand this after just one viewing, because I certainly didn't. Will rewatch this film as soon as it becomes available on streaming platforms. I am curious about the questions that were asked during…

Jomari Bashin

The writer/director Truong Minh Quy’s “Viet and Nam” is absolutely hypnotic. It begins in a coal mine; Viet (Dao Duy Bao Dinh) and Nam (Pham Thanh Hai) are sweaty and exhausted—their shirts are wide open. The pair are secretly lovers. We will return many times to their…

Robert Daniels

Ear wax picking is the greatest gesture of love between two Asians <3

KYK

There were moments in this gorgeous, gorgeous film where I could feel my brain working double time to hold on to the beauty of those images just a little longer.

Rafa Sales Ross

I will call it out now: MASTERPIECE. Very much in the vein of Apichatpong, this is queer slow cinema in its most visceral form. And not just this, it is also a story about Vietnam: it’s war time past and economic present. Intertwining and flowing freely, finding images and…

Alex O. S. L.

Haunting in many ways. The Vietnamese title of this film “Trong Lòng Đất” translates roughly to “In the heart of the earth / land / soil”.  There’s so much complexity and layers here. Interconnections between memory, (collective) trauma through war, borders between…

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Debaixo da caverna, entre as paredes escuras de uma mina de carvão, surgem dois corpos entrelaçados pelo desejo, em meio ao calor da pele, onde a luz do mundo não alcança e onde a terra, em sua essência mais densa, guarda segredos antigos. Entre o corpo físico e o…

DamRibeiro