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Vietnamese films cause fever when winning awards at Cannes Film Festival

Film The smell of green papaya (1993)

The smell of green papaya is Tran Anh Hung’s debut film and stars his wife, actress Tran Nu Yen Khe. The film is set in Vietnam in the 1950s, but was filmed in France.

Tran Anh Hung won the Golden Camera award at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. Source: NSX

The film revolves around each stage in Mui’s life – from a young age, she lived in a northern family of cloth traders in Saigon around the 1950s. In this family, the wife is the main breadwinner, shouldering the work. , and the husband only knows how to play. Ten years later, the Mui family’s maid fell into crisis, she became a pianist’s maid again, and from here Mui’s life turned to a new page…

By exploiting the value of Vietnamese women through their irony, loyal heart in the past context, The smell of green papaya impressed international critics, helping Tran Anh Hung’s work win the Golden Camera award at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, a César Award for best debut film. The film was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Academy Awards, making it the first and only Vietnamese-language film to ever receive a nomination. Oscar.

Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Roger Ebert gave the film 5 out of 5 stars, calling it “a film so calm and filled with sweetness, it’s like listening to soothing music… An omen. quiet, introspective, quiet – no driving plot but focused on the development of women”.

Janet Maslin’s newspaper The New York Times also gave praise to the film: “The smell of green papaya marks a florid debut, a passionate look for director Hung; His films are often so quiet and associative that it only needs dialogue.”

Film Bi, don’t be afraid (2010)

Bi, don’t be afraid is Phan Dang Di’s first feature-length film, produced by Le Arte, Sud-est and BHD in 2009, and completed post-production in France in April 2010. The work is in the form of an independent film with a lot of experimentation.

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In 2010, director Phan Dang Di’s film received two awards: ACID/CCAS of the Association of Independent Film Distributors and SACD for best screenwriter in the Critics’ Week category of the Cannes Film Festival. 63. Photo: NSX

Bi, don’t be afraid tells the story of a family in Hanoi, where a 6-year-old boy named Bi lives with his parents, an unmarried biological aunt, and a longtime housekeeper. The considerable disturbance of the family is also an excuse to enter the film when Grandpa Bi, an old sick man from afar, suddenly returns. Those are two worlds that appear to men struggling with drunkenness, the pain of illness and women trying to free themselves from obsessions from personal desires…

In 2010, director Phan Dang Di’s film received two awards: ACID/CCAS of the Association of Independent Film Distributors and SACD for best screenwriter in the Critics’ Week category of the Cannes Film Festival. 63rd time.

Review of the film, site critic James McNally Toronto Screen Shots once said: “This is a movie with a lot of mysteries, not a single mystery has been revealed. In a sense, this leaves room for the characters to act in unpredictable ways, but it also leads to some points of confusion”. In Vietnam, the film had a limited screening but caused controversy because of many shocking hot scenes.

Film Wake up and get ready (2018)

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The film “Wake Up and Get Ready” won the Directors’ Fortnight category at Cannes. Photo: N.Phuong

Be awake and ready by Pham Thien An is one of five excellent works under CJ Short Film Project 2018. The story about a car crash that happened in front of a pub on the sidewalk was accidentally connected in the story of 3 young people. The film impresses with the entire scene taken with just one long shot, clearly depicting a realistic social picture with just the conversation and the setting at the roadside pub.

After completing the project at the end of 2018, the film was sent to Cannes and officially selected to premiere in the important category Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (Directors’ Fortnight) or Directors’ Week – a branch of the Cannes Film Festival, born in 1968 to honor the art film line that did not compete for the main prize. In this category, Be awake and ready compete with 9 short films from other countries. This is the only Vietnamese short film selected that year.

When the 2019 Cannes Film Festival was held, Be awake and ready won the Directors’ Fortnight category. Before Thien An’s victory, director Hong Anh (who guides Thien An) commented: “The seven-minute film was shot with just one shot. I appreciate An’s ability and technique in staging, filming. He is a talented filmmaker and will go far in his career.”

The movie The Dream of Salads (2022)

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Mai Vu brought pride to Vietnam when she received the Light on Women Award for a film competing in the La Cinef category at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Photo: Cannes

Spring Roll Dream (or Salad dream) has a length of 9 minutes and is directed and directed by Mai Vu – a student at the National Film and Television School in the UK (NFTS). The project is her graduation product. In the La Cinef category, there were 1,528 works submitted from film schools, but only 16 names were selected.

Salad dream describes the changes of a three-generation family. Linh is a Vietnamese single mother who is building a stable life for herself and her son in the US, but her life balance is turned upside down when her father (voiced by People’s Artist Bui Bai Binh) from Vietnam came to visit and decided to make salad rolls for his grandson. When this seemingly innocuous conflict arises, Linh must confront the past, inhabited by the culture she was raised in, and the question of where it belongs in her family’s new life. that.

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Actress Kate Winslet presents the award to female director Mai Vu. Photo: Cannes

Recently, Mai Vu brought pride to Vietnam when she received the Light on Women Award for a film competing in the La Cinef category of the Cannes Film Festival 2022. This is an award to encourage female directors with outstanding achievements. short film pursuing his creative aspirations. The prize money is 20,000 euros. Actress Kate Winslet is the representative presenting the award to director Mai Vu at the closing ceremony of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival on May 27.

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