Friday 1 December 2023
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
International Film Club is a monthly film screening of arthouse, international and cult cinema from around the world for adults.
Vietnam the Movie (2015) 18+
Directed by Nguyễn Trinh Thi
Documentary
Single channel video, 47 min, color and B&W, sound
Vietnam the Movie uses a carefully structured montage of clips from drama and documentary films to give a chronological account of Vietnamese history from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, encompassing the end of French colonialism and America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. But this is no conventional history lesson. Rather, the excerpts chosen contrast a variety of external and often oppositional views, ranging from mainstream Hollywood drama to European art-house. Source material from the US includes ‘Apocalypse Now’, ‘Born on the Fourth of July’ and ‘Forrest Gump’, whilst Europe is represented by the works of Harun Farocki, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog and Jean-Luc Godard. Director Nguyễn Trinh Thi also splices extracts from the films of Nagisa Oshima, Satyajit Ray and Ann Hui into the mix. The result suggests that any ‘true’ picture of Vietnam has been lost to the multiplicity of symbolic purposes to which the country, its people and their tribulations have been put.
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