Cannes 2024: Viet and Nam movie review – brave Vietnamese gay drama paints abstract picture of a nation’s trauma

Cannes 2024: Viet and Nam movie review – brave Vietnamese gay drama paints abstract picture of a nation’s trauma

3/5 stars Viet and Nam, the third feature by Vietnamese filmmaker Minh Quy Truong (The Tree House, 2019), which had its premiere in the Cannes festival’s Un Certain Regard section, is an abstract, opaque drama. While hardly a film that feels ripped from the headlines, it comes inspired by a real-life incident in 2019. A … Read more