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Directed by BUI THAC Chuyen Script by PAHN DANG Di
ORIZZONTI competition Venice September 2009 Selection World Contemporary Cinema, Toronto 2009
Duyên, has just got married to Hai – a young man who is still very innocent. She thought she was happy, but the shared life of the young couple is soon dotted with flickers of emptiness. They don’t make love like other couples. They are just like two good friends. Duyên has a girlfriend—Ca, a writer. Cam is older and silently in love with Duyen. She is troubled by a vast emptiness brought about by Duyên’s marriage. In order to hide from Duyên her real feeling—a kind of love deemed immoral by the Vietnamese society, Cam pretends to be tortured by her love for a man named Tho that Duyen meets soon. With him, for the first time, Duyên discovers her femininity that had been confined until then within the constraints of traditional morality.
With : Hai Yen (Duyen); Linh Dan Pham (Câm); Duy Khoa (Hai); Jonny Tri Nguyen (Tho); Linh Dung (Vi); Nhu Quynh (Hai's mother).
Co production FEATURE FILMS STUDIO n°1 (Vietnam), ACROBATES FILMS (France) with the support of Media Vietnam Corp; Hubert Bals Fund; Fonds Sud Cinema Hong Kong Asian Film Forum-HAF , April 2009 Director of photography : Ly Thai Dung Sound engineer : Arnaud Soulier Editor : Julie Beziau
Shooting : Autumn 2008, Ha Noi, Along Bay - VIETNAM Language : Vietnamese. Shot in HD-Red One, finalization 35mm Dolby SRD.
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