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The Tree House

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Several decades in the future, an astronaut on Mars contacts his father on Earth and asks him about how things were in the past, in Vietnam.

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian 08/13/2020
3/5
A meditation pregnant with ideas. Go to Full Review
Siddhant Adlakha Slashfilm 10/16/2019
Regret seems to permeate the entire film; a feeling that capturing and canonizing these intimate traditions is a form of barbarism. Truong appears to wrestle with the long-held wisdom of "show, don't tell" Go to Full Review
Kaleem Aftab Cineuropa 08/29/2019
The images of villagers in the mountain tilling the land and living in seclusion, and those of their pets wandering around, are stunning. Go to Full Review
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01/18/2021 A beautiful elegy to the vanishing world, hypnotic, quite moving. "Original Language" is a mix of languages/dialects native to Vietnam....NOT English See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Several decades in the future, an astronaut on Mars contacts his father on Earth and asks him about how things were in the past, in Vietnam.
Director
Minh Quý Trương
Producer
Xiaodong Guo, Gregor Streiber
Screenwriter
Minh Quý Trương
Production Co
Kafard Films
Genre
Sci-Fi, Documentary
Original Language
Hmong
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 13, 2020
Runtime
1h 24m