Cu Li Never Cries

Phạm Ngọc Lân
2024-11-15

They say, live in the now as much as you can. But the past returns regardless. Unwhole. Fragmented. Existing in pieces of experience.
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93 min

A woman tries to cling onto dimming links to her past after inheriting a pygmy slow loris from her long-estranged husband; meanwhile, her niece prepares for marriage as the young couple ponders their gloomy future together. The present and the complex echoes of Vietnamese history are entwined before a contemplative and poetic perspective.