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- 2001
- PG-13
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 52 m
- 2001
- PG-13
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 52 m
Summary On the anniversary of their mother's death, three sisters in contemporary Hanoi meet to prepare a memorial banquet. After the banquet, the calm exteriors of the sisters' lives begin to give way to more turbulent truths. [Sony Pictures Classics]
Directed By: Anh Hung Tran
Written By: Anh Hung Tran
- 2001
- PG-13
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 52 m
- 2001
- PG-13
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 52 m
The Vertical Ray of the Sun
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5.8
Summary On the anniversary of their mother's death, three sisters in contemporary Hanoi meet to prepare a memorial banquet. After the banquet, the calm exteriors of the sisters' lives begin to give way to more turbulent truths. [Sony Pictures Classics]
Directed By: Anh Hung Tran
Written By: Anh Hung Tran
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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81% Positive
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19% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
72
81% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
19% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
A wholly enveloping experience. Gentle, ravishingly beautiful and awash in everyday sensuality, it so intoxicates you with the elegance and refinement of its filmmaking that even noticing, let alone caring, whether it has a plot starts to seem beside the point.
Underneath the ravishing imagery however, hearts are in flux.
Beautiful, languorous, passive -- it plays like background music for itself.
Few filmmakers of the past 20 years have mesmerized as much in their use of crisp, color-drenched photography.
Much of the film is oddly ambiguous, as if Tran used it to explore conflicts of tradition and modernity and never came up with any answers.
If you're looking for refuge from summer movie bombast, it's frequently intoxicating.
Story is fairly conventional and not especially well told, though as usual Tran's images are so sensual and beautiful that I was rarely bored or frustrated.
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 User Ratings
5.8
60% Positive
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Production Company
Arte France Cinéma,
Canal+,
Lazennec Films,
Le Studio Canal+,
Vietnam Feature Film Studio,
ZDF/Arte,
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)
Release Date Jul 6, 2001
Duration 1 h 52 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline One day. Many lives. A family. Lovers. An eternity. A hope. A delay. A secret. Happiness. Lies. One summer.
Awards
Chlotrudis Awards
• 2 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
