Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
BÊN TRONG VO KÉN VÀNG
Vietnam/France/Singapore/Spain, 2023, Pham Thien An
In this entrancing debut that won the Camera d’Or for best first film at Cannes 2023, a thirtyish Vietnamese man escorts his five-year-old nephew to their rural hometown after a sudden death in the family. Along the way, the man, who’s both haunted and prodded on by a series of sublime dreams and memories, detours into a search for his long-missing older brother. The journey home becomes a pilgrimage—a mystical and visually-splendid spiritual quest for understanding and certainty. “Challenging but seductive art cinema that invites comparisons to such titans as Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tsai Ming-liang and even Theo Angelopoulos, without feeling derivative of any.” –Variety. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 182 min. Special admission $13; members, CIA/CSU I.D. holders, age 25 & under $10; no passes. https://kinolorber.com/film/inside-the-yellow-cocoon-shell (Source: ohio.org)
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Vietnam/France/Singapore/Spain, 2023, Pham Thien An
In this entrancing debut that won the Camera d’Or for best first film at Cannes 2023, a thirtyish Vietnamese man escorts his five-year-old nephew to their rural hometown after a sudden death in the family. Along the way, the man, who’s both haunted and prodded on by a series of sublime dreams and memories, detours into a search for his long-missing older brother. The journey home becomes a pilgrimage—a mystical and visually-splendid spiritual quest for understanding and certainty. “Challenging but seductive art cinema that invites comparisons to such titans as Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tsai Ming-liang and even Theo Angelopoulos, without feeling derivative of any.” –Variety. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 182 min. Special admission $13; members, CIA/CSU I.D. holders, age 25 & under $10; no passes. https://kinolorber.com/film/inside-the-yellow-cocoon-shell (Source: ohio.org)