Sound
Documenting the transformation of Bưởi Road in Hanoi, from a labyrinth of houses and small businesses to a highway, with demolition crew destroying buildings - some still inhabited, gleaners looking for metal scraps to sell for a living, and people living on the edge of this crowded road finding a way to keep on living.
Director
Documenting the transformation of Bưởi Road in Hanoi, from a labyrinth of houses and small businesses to a highway, with demolition crew destroying buildings - some still inhabited, gleaners looking for metal scraps to sell for a living, and people living on the edge of this crowded road finding a way to keep on living.
Costume Design
19세기 베트남, 14세 소녀 마이는 아름다운 계곡을 따라 꽃단장한 배를 타고 간다. 그녀를 기다리는 것은 나이가 훨씬 많은 지주의 셋째 부인이 되는 것. 홍등이 밝혀지고 무사히 첫날밤을 치른다. 눈치가 빠른 마이는 다른 부인들과도 잘 지내고 둘째 부인의 딸과도 자매처럼 지낸다. 성에 눈을 뜨면서 자신의 정체성을 찾아가는 성인이 되어가는 한편, 빨리 아들을 낳아 자신의 지위를 인정받고자 한다. 머지않아 순조롭게 임신을 하고 태교를 하던 중, 중매결혼을 앞둔 장성한 첫째 부인의 아들과 친언니처럼 살갑게 지내는 둘째 부인이 서로 연인관계라는 사실을 알게 된다. 마이 자신도 둘째 부인에게 연정을 느끼게 되는데…. 몸종 간에도 허락 없이 임신을 하면 처벌을 받는 시대를 배경으로 성장과 금기, 자유와 극단의 선택에 이르게 한 다층적인 감정을 아름답게 표현하였다. 단순히 오리엔탈 에로티시즘으로 보게 된다면 이 영화가 드러내고자 하는 여성의 성장이라는 오늘날에도 살아있는 메시지를 놓치는 일이 될 것이다. (박성호/2018년 제23회 부산국제영화제)
Director of Photography
Phong grew up in a small town in the center of Vietnam - the youngest of six children. From the time he was a young boy, Phong felt like he was a girl with a mismatched boy's body. Not until he moved to Hanoi to attend university at age 20 did Phong discover that he was not the only one in the world with this predicament. His dream to 'find herself' by physically changing sex becomes a reality several years later. The movie follows Phong's struggle during these years, with excerpts from an intimate video journal, along with encounters with family, friends and doctors - all of whom must come to terms with Phong determination to become a complete girl.
Director
Phong grew up in a small town in the center of Vietnam - the youngest of six children. From the time he was a young boy, Phong felt like he was a girl with a mismatched boy's body. Not until he moved to Hanoi to attend university at age 20 did Phong discover that he was not the only one in the world with this predicament. His dream to 'find herself' by physically changing sex becomes a reality several years later. The movie follows Phong's struggle during these years, with excerpts from an intimate video journal, along with encounters with family, friends and doctors - all of whom must come to terms with Phong determination to become a complete girl.
Sound
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.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
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