Lao-American filmmaker Mattie Do will be part of the 2019 International Jury of the Far East Film Festival’s White Mulberry Award. Chanthaly is her mixed-genre first feature.
Chanthaly is a 20-something years old woman. She has a heart problem, making her take medicines and forbidding her to leave the house. The young stay-at-home daughter has been raised by her father, as her mother died in childbirth. She starts seeing her mother’s ghost and having flash-backs, which leads her to question her life story.
“Chanthaly” is hard to define and never takes the expected path, which makes it even more interesting.
Do’s film definitely has a touch of horror with the mother’s ghost. At first, the object of fear (the phantom) is suggested and not shown, in a very “X-Files” way. It evolves to being clearly revealed on screen. The development of the dead’s mother spirit is actually noteworthy.
Chanthaly is a 20-something years old woman. She has a heart problem, making her take medicines and forbidding her to leave the house. The young stay-at-home daughter has been raised by her father, as her mother died in childbirth. She starts seeing her mother’s ghost and having flash-backs, which leads her to question her life story.
“Chanthaly” is hard to define and never takes the expected path, which makes it even more interesting.
Do’s film definitely has a touch of horror with the mother’s ghost. At first, the object of fear (the phantom) is suggested and not shown, in a very “X-Files” way. It evolves to being clearly revealed on screen. The development of the dead’s mother spirit is actually noteworthy.
- 4/28/2019
- by Oriana Virone
- AsianMoviePulse
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