Film

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

 
US premiere
 
Tue, Oct 10, 2023
  • 8:30PM
 
 
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RUN TIME: 177min
FORMAT: DCP
LANGUAGE: In Vietnamese with English subtitles
GENERAL ADMISSION: $18
MEMBERS: $13
STUDENTS: $13 (in-person only, with valid student ID)
 
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Part of Film series NYFF61 at BAM
Directed by Thien An Pham | 2023

With Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh, Le Phong Vu, Vu Ngoc Manh

Winner of the prestigious Camera d’Or for best first film at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the enthralling Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell from Vietnamese filmmaker Thien An Pham is a reverie on faith, loss, and nature expressed with uncommon invention and depth. It’s a simple tale told with visual complexity: after a car accident claims the life of his sister-in-law and leaves his 5-year-old nephew an orphan, a thirtysomething man named Thien (Le Phong Vu) leaves Saigon for a trip back to his rural hometown. During his meditative, wandering visit, Thien wrestles with his own agnosticism in the face of others’ religious beliefs, summons memories of his long-disappeared brother, and reconnects with a former girlfriend who now lives as a nun at a Christian church and school. With its drifting camera, evocative use of natural light, and gratifying perambulatory nature, this is a film with the power to readjust one’s perceptions of the world around us. A Kino Lorber release.

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