INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL
Genre
Drama
Running time
182 minutes
Year
2023
Language
Vietnamese
Country
Vietnam, Singapore and France
Director
Thien An Pham
Bio
Producer
Jeremy Chua, Tran Van Thi
Cast
Le Phong Vu, Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh, Nguyen Thinh, Vu Ngoc Manh
Scriptwriter
Thien An Pham
Winner of best first film at the Cannes Film Festival, this is a beautifully rendered portrait of a disengaged young man who is obliged to return to reality when his sister-in-law Hanh dies in a motorcycle accident. Suddenly, Thien (Le Phong Vu) becomes the default guardian of his five-year-old nephew Dao (Nguyen Thinh), who he decides to return to their village in the lush rural hinterland. After ensuring Hanh has a Christian burial, he must find Dao’s father Tam, his long-disappeared brother. The search leads him to a chance meeting with a woman he once loved, now a nun. Such meetings with the past gradually but inexorably return him more fully to the present.
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