The new Vietnamese film The Vertical Ray of the Sun opens with a shot of a young man waking up in bed. Written and directed by Tran Anh Hung, who made The Scent of Green Papaya, the scene closely ...
At last, a film about Vietnam with nary a mention of war.In a lush, languid setting, the three sisters at the heart of Tran Anh Hung's "The Vertical Ray of the Sun" have something else entirely on ...
Tran Anh Hung’s beautiful meditation on family ties and family traumas, The Vertical Ray of the Sun, marks a captivating new chapter in the career of the writer-director who was the first to give ...