This beautiful portrait of life in 1950s Saigon won the Golden Camera at Cannes and captured a Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar nomination. Told through the eyes of a young servant, the film follows the declining fortunes of a merchant family who view the girl as a surrogate for their own dead daughter. Director Tran Anh Hung (2010's "Norwegian Wood") created an amazing sense of Vietnamese life despite the fact that he shot entirely on Parisian sound stages. Tran Nu Yen-Khe ("Cyclo," 1995) and Man An Lushare the leading role.
This beautiful portrait of life in 1950s Saigon won the Golden Camera at Cannes and captured a Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar nomination. Told through the eyes of a young servant, the film follows the declining fortunes of a merchant family who view the girl as a surrogate for their own dead daughter. Director Tran Anh Hung (2010's "Norwegian Wood") created an amazing sense of Vietnamese life despite the fact that he shot entirely on Parisian sound stages. Tran Nu Yen-Khe ("Cyclo," 1995) and Man An Lushare the leading role.
