Guest reviewer Lee Broughton offers a look at writer-director Derek Nguyen’s intriguing debut feature, a finely observed supernatural gothic chiller-cum-illicit period love story, set on a French plantation in Vietnam towards the end of the First Indochina War. It’s also a spooky melodrama with a difference. As such, this well-acted, handsomely staged and stylishly shot Vietnamese-South Korean co-production is able to offset its scenes of uncanny terror and interracial romance with scenarios that pass comment on both the mechanics of colonialism and the physical violence and psychological damage that necessarily accompany the colonial process.
The Housemaid
Region B Blu-ray + Pal DVD
Eureka Entertainment
2016 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 105 min. / Co Hau Gai / Street Date, 19 Feb 2018 / £12.99
Starring: Nhung Kate, Jean-Michel Richaud, Kim Xuan, Rosie Fellner, Phi Phung, Kien An, Svitlana Kovalenko.
Cinematography: Sam Chase
Film Editor: Stephane Gauger
Production Designer: Jose Mari (Joji) Pamintuan
Original Music: Jerome Leroy
Produced by Timothy Linh Bui,...
The Housemaid
Region B Blu-ray + Pal DVD
Eureka Entertainment
2016 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 105 min. / Co Hau Gai / Street Date, 19 Feb 2018 / £12.99
Starring: Nhung Kate, Jean-Michel Richaud, Kim Xuan, Rosie Fellner, Phi Phung, Kien An, Svitlana Kovalenko.
Cinematography: Sam Chase
Film Editor: Stephane Gauger
Production Designer: Jose Mari (Joji) Pamintuan
Original Music: Jerome Leroy
Produced by Timothy Linh Bui,...
- 3/6/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Writer/director Michael Walker returns to the Sundance Film Festival for the first time since Price Check, his 2012 comedy/drama starring Parker Posey and a pre-fame Amy Schumer. His new work, Paint, is an episodic series about three young artists living together in Brooklyn. Walker tapped Sam Chase to shoot and coproduce the series. Chase previously shot Price Check along with more than 25 shorts, features and series. Below, he discusses his love of the Black Magic Pocket Camera and why Hangover 2 is the work of a “coverage and lighting genius.” Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer […]...
- 1/24/2018
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
In an industry completely regulated by the State, horror films are not exactly the norm, particularly since 2007, Vietnamese authorities have warned filmmakers against producing ghost and horror movies “with incomprehensible plots and extreme horror”. However, a few films of the genre have surfaced during the latest years, with “The Housemaid,” which became the third-highest-grossing horror film in Vietnam’s history, being one of the best samples.
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The film is set in 1953 Vietnam during the First Indochinese War and revolves around Linh, a docile and hardworking poor orphaned girl who comes to Sa Cat, a former rubber plantation who barely functions due to the war, seeking a housemaid job. Sebastien Laurent is a French captain and the owner of the plantation and the massive mansion, but the only ones left there seem to be Mrs Han, who runs the house, and the other two servants, Mrs. Ngo, a...
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The film is set in 1953 Vietnam during the First Indochinese War and revolves around Linh, a docile and hardworking poor orphaned girl who comes to Sa Cat, a former rubber plantation who barely functions due to the war, seeking a housemaid job. Sebastien Laurent is a French captain and the owner of the plantation and the massive mansion, but the only ones left there seem to be Mrs Han, who runs the house, and the other two servants, Mrs. Ngo, a...
- 1/22/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Kendrick Lamar and Elton John: together! At last! Sort of. Those are just two headliners at the 2015 Outside Lands music fest, taking place Aug. 7-9 in San Francisco in Golden State Park. The Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Sam Smith, Wilco, D'Angelo and others also help line the marquee. And, hey, it only takes you to line 10 to get to a lady-led act! Tickets go on sale on March 26 at 10 a.m. Pst. Here is the complete lineup: Elton John Mumford & Sons The Black Keys Sam Smith Kendrick Lamar Wilco Axwell & Ingrosso Tame Impala D'Angelo and The Vanguard St. Vincent Porter Robinson Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals Billy Idol G-Eazy Hot Chip Slightly Stoopid Caribou Milky Chance Chet Faker The Devil Makes Three Nate Ruess Odesza First Aid Kit Toro Y Moi Rl Grime Lake Street Dive Mac DeMarco George Ezra Lindsey Stirling Iration Angus & Julia Stone DJ Mustard St.
- 3/24/2015
- by Katie Hasty
- Hitfix
Everyone is enjoying the holiday here at PlanetdoorQ. We might be back later this weekend. We might all get drunk, hook up with hotties while singing the Star Spangled Banner and dance in the streets wearing nothing but sparklers and a smile. Until next we meet, enjoy the Holiday, be safe, and take a moment to remember all of those who lived, fought and died, for the hope, for the dream, for the reality of America.--Tann Declaration of Independence
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of the Thirteen United States of AmericaWhen, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station...
Here is the complete text of the Declaration of Independence.
The original spelling and capitalization have been retained.
(Adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776)
The Unanimous Declaration
of the Thirteen United States of AmericaWhen, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station...
- 7/4/2009
- doorQ.com
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