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After his parents emigrated to the US, Thiện moves from the countryside to Saigon in southern Vietnam, where he earns a living as a wedding videographer. With exceptionally long takes, slow zooms, and minimal editing, debut filmmaker Phạm Thiên Ân immerses the viewer in Thiện’s experiences, which mostly consist of seemingly random, yet deeply meaningful encounters. This is, without any pretension, slow cinema in its boldest and most radical form.
With this contemplative film, the director won the Camera d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, making him the second Vietnamese winner in thirty years, after Tran Anh Hung’s The Scent of Green Papaya.
The Guardian (★★★★★) ‘Jewel of slow cinema’
