Vertical Ray of the Sun
(2000)
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Vertical Ray of the Sun
(2000)
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Tran Nu Yên-Khê | ... |
Lien
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Nhu Quynh Nguyen | ... |
Suong
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Le Khanh | ... |
Khanh
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Quang Hai Ngo | ... |
Hai
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Chu Hung | ... |
Quoc
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Manh Cuong Tran | ... |
Kien
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Tuân Anh Lê | ... |
Tuan
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Ngoc Dung Le | ... |
Huong
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Doan Viet Ha |
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Long Le Vu |
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Aidan Nguyen |
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Anh Tuan |
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With the brilliant Vietnamese summer as a setting Vertical Ray of the Sun is beautiful from beginning to end. The plot centres around three sisters, two of whom are happily married (or so it appears). The youngest sister is single and living with her cute older brother, whom she is desperately in love with. A second sister is married to a man who has another woman and child elsewhere whom he loves just as much as his wife -with a few conditions, she agrees to carry on with the marriage. The third sister and her husband are overjoyed to discover she is pregnant, and though he is tempted, her husband remains loyal to her. Charming, slow-paced, face value, family saga film. Written by K Wedgwood
This film (as The Scent of Green Papaya) is to me pure visual poetry. As with a poem it offers its impact slowly and through its suggestive images that come at you subtlely and with enormous grace. It's not a story of "and then and then"...it unfolds like a beautiful fan, by degrees...giving the viewer a chance to internalize each moment. And I was particularly impressed by the repetition of certain actions...the turning of two people, with a significant look; the clipping of nails...such small details reflect a sensibility that brings the seemingly unimportant moments in life, the often repeated ones into a whole new light, into consciousness and value. This, for me, is a glorious and appropriate use of film, which is, after all, a visual medium. The director, the actors, the cinematographer are to be commended on this masterpiece!