Julie Béziau

Movies

Glorious Ashes
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Set in Thom Rom; a poor coastal village in South Vietnam, the film centers on three women, whose love lives are unusual and unique to their nature. Their story is the contrast between the unsettling sentiments beneath and the pretentious peacefulness on the surface.
The Unseen River
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Stories told along the river: a woman reunites with her ex-lover at a hydroelectric plant; meanwhile, a young man travels downstream to a temple in search of a cure for his insomnia.
Between Shadow and Soul
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Mây, a fourteen year-old girl is being married as the third wife to a rich landowner in the late 19th century Northern Vietnam. A black & white version of The Third Wife with no dialogue and new music.
The Third Wife
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Though only 14 years old, May is selected to be the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Her new home seems idyllic, her husband favours her, and she quickly becomes pregnant with what she is certain will be the desired male progeny. But trouble is quietly brewing: she witnesses a forbidden tryst that will spark a chain reaction of misfortunes — and stir in May urges that until now had been dormant.
On the Endless Road
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A cinematic journey to the death in searching for the paradise of youth on the highlands of northern Vietnam.
Homostratus
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A city in explosive development. Overcrowded streets of human beings, all on motorbikes, get mixed up into circulation streams, nobody knows neither their source nor their activities.A magma of images reflects, without consistency, all ideals of consumption.In this confusion, a particular destiny could be a daily life of everybody. Such as a common story: a grand-mother is dying, a divorced woman who does not want to take care of her teenager child, an anxious father initiates his son earning his own living, a teenager dreams of a lucky life without having to work, and new rules of transparency in global way of judgments implicate up to private life of a human being, pretending control the quality of his work... Nobody knows what will be happened next?
Trong hay ngoài tay em
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Thi and Trung live in the gorgeous, rice-terraced mountains of Vietnam’s far northwest. Like many young men in this region on the main heroin route from Laos to China, they’re addicts, and they have HIV. Thi wants to kick his habit. Trung just wants to die. “With or Without Me ” is an intimate, tragicomic portrayal of two guys strung out at the edge of the map of a country struggling with drug use, and of the wives, family, doctors and friends trying to pull them back from the brink.
Here... or There?
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What seems at first the uneventful existence of an old married couple turns bizarre as alternate realities begin to emerge.