The Best Movies to Watch In Vietnamese on Criterionchannel
Find the best Vietnamese-language movies to watch. These movies in Vietnamese are: highly-rated by critics, highly-rated by viewers, and handpicked by our staff.
language: Vietnamese
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The Beat That My Heart Skipped is a remake of 1978 American film Fingers, but reversed– The film brings a debt collector to piano rather than the other way around. As you can imagine, the reversal completely changes how the plot feels. It’s not great that the mom here is dead, but this choice makes […]
Given the Vietnam War, America held certain unsavory stereotypes of their former enemy. These stereotypes inspire the ensemble of Three Seasons. This is a surprising approach, especially for the first American full-length film shot in Vietnam, but filmmaking brothers Tony and Timothy Linh Bui take these stock characters to craft them new, hopeful stories. Through […]
With the narrative switching back and forth between Long’s imprisonment and his family’s dangerous escape, Journey From the Fall can feel a tad confusing. The structure also dilutes some of the terror of not knowing what happened to their loved ones. But what’s shown is already potent in and of itself, starting with the folktales […]