Trinh T. Minh-ha’s fifth film, the first in 35-millimeter and her first narrative feature uses the long Vietnamese poem “The Tale of Kiều” (1820), seen by the Vietnamese people as a mythical biography of the ‘motherland’ marked by internal turbulence and foreign domination, as the base of a genuinely experimental effort.
The film was part of Ica’s retrospective of Trinh T. Minh-ha
The story is set in San Francisco and revolves around Kieu, a young woman who works as a writer for a women’s magazine and as a photo-model for a photographer who is also her lover. Despite her base, she retains her links to Vietnam, sending money to her family, whose members still live there.
With a distinct disregard for the standards of narrative, Trinh T. Minh-ha focuses the film on the discussions Kieu has with her property owner, the photographer, and the owner of the magazine,...
The film was part of Ica’s retrospective of Trinh T. Minh-ha
The story is set in San Francisco and revolves around Kieu, a young woman who works as a writer for a women’s magazine and as a photo-model for a photographer who is also her lover. Despite her base, she retains her links to Vietnam, sending money to her family, whose members still live there.
With a distinct disregard for the standards of narrative, Trinh T. Minh-ha focuses the film on the discussions Kieu has with her property owner, the photographer, and the owner of the magazine,...
- 7/14/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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