Nostalgia for Countryside
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Dang Nhat Minh
Thuy Huong
Le Van
Ta Ngoc Bao
Nguyen Huy Can
Tran Anh Hoa
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Synopsis
Set in a small village in North Vietnam, a tale of awakening which traces a growing love triangle between Nham, an earnest and responsible 17-year-old country boy; the charming Ngu, his lonely and naive sister-in-law with whom he works closely in the fields; and Quyen, a stylishly vivacious expatriate who has just returned from the city, curious about life in the village where she spent her childhood. While all three characters are too reticent to unleash their feelings, the romance turns on the realization that this web of emotions is largely symbolic. Nham represents for Quyen an innocence and a past that she can't recapture, just as she represents for Nham an urbanity and future prospects that he may never attain; and caught between the two is the delicate Ngu, left in the most desolate postion of positions.
Director
Dang Nhat Minh
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Co-winner, along with Hsu Hsiao-Ming's "Heartbreak Island" (Taiwan/1995), of the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema's NETPAC award at the 1996 Rotterdam International Film Festival.
Shown at 19th Asian American International Film Festival July 19-21 & 25-28, 1996.
Shown at Montreal World Film Festival August 22 - September 2, 1996.
Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival January 24 - February 4, 1996.
Shown at Sundance Film Festival (World Cinema) in Park City, Utah January 18-28, 1996.
color
dialogue Vietnamese
subtitled English
