Depicted by actors, Dui Bao Din Dao and Fam Ta Hay Hay, Viet and Nam are coal -miners – and lovers. They’re additionally the title characters in Viet and Nam, director of the director Truon Min Qui, an intensive tempo positioned in Vietnam in 2001.
In the event you assume that QUY is as much as one thing with these two names, you’re proper. From its begin within the blackness of a mining shaft to an indelible picture of the delivery crate, the movie meditates on comparability, amongst them: south and north, the private and non-private ones, left and go, darkness and lightweight, moms and dads.
At first, as a tv station broadcasts the names of the nonetheless -missing troopers of the struggle in Vietnam, Nam and his mom, Hoa (NGU NGA), coming round their residence. Rely the 2 among the many households who nonetheless hope to search out the unmarked graves of their family members.
Whereas Nam, Hoa, Ba (Le Viet Tung), who fights with Nam’s father and brings a secret, and Viet travels south to discover a funeral place, we additionally make plans to depart Vietnam. His upcoming departure injects one other sort of melancholy into the image. (The film was banned in Vietnam for what the censors noticed as a darkish depiction of the nation.)
Quy treats the love relationship between Viet and us with beautiful tenderness. One of many scenes of the movie – scared for her honesty, but additionally for his visible magnificence – finds males saved in the dead of night of the mine. The movie turns into clear that though Nam and Viet have to be cautious, they’re additionally painful.
Viet and Nam
Not appreciated. In Vietnamese, with subtitles. Work time: 2 hours 9 minutes. In theaters.
