Film essays have recently become a kind of a trend, with a number of French mostly, production companies, nurturing the genre in Asia, as much as a number of festivals in Europe, with Rotterdam in particular, always being quite welcoming of the genre. Vietnamese Nguyen Trinh Thi presents a rather artful film in the category, by focusing on his home country, through a distinctly experimental approach.
Letters from Panduranga is screening in Electric Shadows Letters from Panduranga © Nguyen Trin Thi
Drawing inspiration from Chris Marker’s “Letters from Siberia”, Nguyen’s film unfolds as a series of letters between a man and a woman who are presented orally, retaining all the while, a road movie basis that extends beyond locations, also including people, events, and the history of Vietnam, particularly focusing on the aftermath of the war.
In that fashion, the film begins with a series of portraits of various people,...
Letters from Panduranga is screening in Electric Shadows Letters from Panduranga © Nguyen Trin Thi
Drawing inspiration from Chris Marker’s “Letters from Siberia”, Nguyen’s film unfolds as a series of letters between a man and a woman who are presented orally, retaining all the while, a road movie basis that extends beyond locations, also including people, events, and the history of Vietnam, particularly focusing on the aftermath of the war.
In that fashion, the film begins with a series of portraits of various people,...
- 9/4/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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