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Inside the yellow cocoon shell [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Pham Thiên Ân.

Kino Lorber, 2024.

Alternate title:

Bên trong vo kén vàng [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (ca. 178 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Vietnamese audio; English subtitles.

Director, Pham Thien An.

Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh, Nguyen Thinh, Le Phong Vu, Vu Ngoc Manh.

Winner of the prestigious Camera d'Or for best first film at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the enthralling Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell from Vietnamese filmmaker Pham Thien An is a reverie on faith, loss, and nature expressed with uncommon invention and depth. It's a simple tale told with visual complexity: after a car accident claims the life of his sister-in-law and leaves his 5-year-old nephew an orphan, a thirtysomething man named Thien leaves Saigon for a trip back to his rural hometown. During his meditative, wandering visit, Thien wrestles with his own agnosticism in the face of others' religious beliefs, summons memories of his long-disappeared brother, and reconnects with a former girlfriend who now lives as a nun at a Christian church and school. With its drifting camera, evocative use of natural light, and gratifying perambulatory nature, this is a film with the power to readjust one's perceptions of the world around us.

Camera Dor/Golden Camera, Cannes Film Festival, 2023.

Vietnamese films.

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