Actress Hai Yen - internationally known for The Quiet American and Adrift - will return to the big screen in the new movie by auteur director Phan Dang Di, Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories. The second film directed by Phan Dang Di after Bi, Don't Be Afraid, this project will feature Do Thi Hai Yen as both the leading actress and producer.The latest project by Phan Dang Di tells the story about some young men trying to scrape out a living on Saigon's mean streets - so desperate that they will allow themselves to be sterilized for cash.On July 2, the World Cinema Fund (Wcf) of the Berlin International Film Festival (Germany) announced the four film projects that are funded by Wcf in 2013, including...
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- 7/29/2013
- Screen Anarchy
DVD Release Date: Jan. 31, 2012
Price: DVD $24.99
Studio: Global Film Initiative
Do Hai Yen (l) and Linh-Dan Pham experience a sexual awakening in Adrift.
The 2009 erotic drama Adrift, a portrait of adultery and sexual awakening in contemporary Hanoi, is the second feature film by Vietnamese director Bui Thac Chuyen.
After her wedding, newlywed Duyen’s (Do Hai Yen) excitement begins to fade as she realizes her young husband is not only sexually naïve, but overly occupied by his job and mother. As her marriage goes unconsummated and her emotional isolation grows, Duyen reaches out to her closest girlfriend, Cam (Linh-Dan Pham), who secretly desires her, but pushes her into the arms of a dangerous and provocative suitor (Johnny Tri Nguyen). The resulting sexual awakening and infidelity thrusts Duyen into a precarious and dangerous love triangle.
The winner of the Fipresci Prize at the Venice International Film Festival, Adrift (or Choi Voi...
Price: DVD $24.99
Studio: Global Film Initiative
Do Hai Yen (l) and Linh-Dan Pham experience a sexual awakening in Adrift.
The 2009 erotic drama Adrift, a portrait of adultery and sexual awakening in contemporary Hanoi, is the second feature film by Vietnamese director Bui Thac Chuyen.
After her wedding, newlywed Duyen’s (Do Hai Yen) excitement begins to fade as she realizes her young husband is not only sexually naïve, but overly occupied by his job and mother. As her marriage goes unconsummated and her emotional isolation grows, Duyen reaches out to her closest girlfriend, Cam (Linh-Dan Pham), who secretly desires her, but pushes her into the arms of a dangerous and provocative suitor (Johnny Tri Nguyen). The resulting sexual awakening and infidelity thrusts Duyen into a precarious and dangerous love triangle.
The winner of the Fipresci Prize at the Venice International Film Festival, Adrift (or Choi Voi...
- 2/2/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Bui Thac Chuyen's film explores female sexuality and desire in the torpor of a Vietnamese monsoon
After being imposed for many years by the Communist regime, censorship is gradually loosening its grip in Vietnam. Witness Choi Voi (Adrift), a film by the young director Bui Thac Chuyen, which was previewed at the Venice film festival in 2009 and explores topics such as homosexuality, which used to upset the authorities.
Adrift centres on the amicable complicity linking two young women. Without realising that Cam is in love with her, Duyen marries a stolid taxi driver. Their wedding night is a disaster, the blind drunk husband falling unconscious. Watched over by an omnipresent mother-in-law, days then weeks pass without her man laying a finger on her. Apparently devoid of any urges, he sleeps.
Cam is a novelist and must have read Choderlos de Laclos (author of Les Liaisons Dangereuses). Out of jealousy and...
After being imposed for many years by the Communist regime, censorship is gradually loosening its grip in Vietnam. Witness Choi Voi (Adrift), a film by the young director Bui Thac Chuyen, which was previewed at the Venice film festival in 2009 and explores topics such as homosexuality, which used to upset the authorities.
Adrift centres on the amicable complicity linking two young women. Without realising that Cam is in love with her, Duyen marries a stolid taxi driver. Their wedding night is a disaster, the blind drunk husband falling unconscious. Watched over by an omnipresent mother-in-law, days then weeks pass without her man laying a finger on her. Apparently devoid of any urges, he sleeps.
Cam is a novelist and must have read Choderlos de Laclos (author of Les Liaisons Dangereuses). Out of jealousy and...
- 2/22/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Director Chuyên Bui Thac presents a lush, sensual and drewy film about emerging sensuality in Adrift. The film is reminiscent of Tr?n Anh Hùng's classic Scent of Green Papaya. But Hùng's story is about old Vietnam, it's old ways and old traditions. Thac's Adrift looks squarely at the beginning of the transformation of a woman from a artless innocent to awakened woman in modern Hanoi. Duyen (Do Thi Hai Yen) and Hai (Nguyen Duy Khoa) are newlyweds, but they seem more like siblings that husband and wife. The early scenes of Duyen and Hai are fill with...
- 10/8/2010
- by Pamela Alexander-Beutler, SF Movies Examiner
- Examiner Movies Channel
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