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
This is Our Land
Director: Lucas Belvaux
Writer: Lucas Belvaux, Jerome Leroy
Belgian filmmaker Lucas Belvaux remains one of French language cinema’s most underrated directors.
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Director: Lucas Belvaux
Writer: Lucas Belvaux, Jerome Leroy
Belgian filmmaker Lucas Belvaux remains one of French language cinema’s most underrated directors.
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- 1/4/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Here's your daily dose of an indie film in progress; at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: Is this a movie you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments. "Essence" Tweetable Logline: Essence is a CG animated short that tells the story of a candle flame who realizes he only has moments to live. Elevator Pitch: Essence is about a sick, lonely man who is reincarnated into a candle flame. Realizing once more he has a terminal fate, he must make his last few moments count. Production Team: director - Sari Rodrig producers - Tom Szenher and Euna Kho composer - Jerome Leroy About the Production: "I absolutely love short animated films. To captivate an audience, your story must be spot on. Animation gives me the chance to create a unique believable world in a medium I am extremely passionate about.
- 11/13/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
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