Make no mistake, even with its premise of morbid, criminal syndicate-level of violence, “The Brilliant Darkness” is ultimately a film about family; of being part of one and all the fuckery that could come with it. Directed by Aaron Toronto, Vietnam’s official entry to the Golden Globe for the Best Foreign Language Film category adeptly enmeshes macabre with trauma that it pulls audiences into different directions of malevolence but also puts them at the center of irreparable, devastating dysfunction.
The film will be available on digital, including Amazon Prime Video, starting Friday, December 9, 2022.
The film sees a reunion of sorts as Song goes home for her grandfather’s funeral. She gets to see her mother and father, her sister Kim, elder brother Kingsley and his wife Ruby and especially her daughter, whom she hasn’t seen for a while following her messy divorce from her husband.
The reunion forces...
The film will be available on digital, including Amazon Prime Video, starting Friday, December 9, 2022.
The film sees a reunion of sorts as Song goes home for her grandfather’s funeral. She gets to see her mother and father, her sister Kim, elder brother Kingsley and his wife Ruby and especially her daughter, whom she hasn’t seen for a while following her messy divorce from her husband.
The reunion forces...
- 12/13/2022
- by Purple Romero
- AsianMoviePulse
*full disclosure: an online screener of this film was provided by the film's United Kingdom distributor, Eureka Entertainment. Director/writer: Derek Nguyen. Cast: Kate Nhung, Jean-Michel Richaud, Kim Xuan, Rosie Fellner, Kien An and Svitlana Kovalenko. The Housemaid aka Cô Haû Gaí is another cross-cultural film. From director Derek Nguyen (Buster's Mal Heart), this film was shot in Vietnam. It hosts both English and Vietnamese languages as an orphan girl searches for her path. Very slowly paced, The Housemaid is not essentially a horror film as Linh (Kate Nhung) ingratiates herself on a French plantation. The Housemaid is a blend of genres. And, the use of so many genres here upsets the film's tone. It is from period piece, to drama, to romance and into the horror realm. The film bounces all over the place. Only foreign film fans or fans of Asian cinema will enjoy this outing. To get...
- 12/16/2017
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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