Viet and Nam

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Viet and Nam

2h 9m

Drama

Romance

LGBTQ+

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In the depths of the underground coal mines, where danger awaits and darkness prevails, Nam and Việt, both young miners, cherish fleeting moments, knowing that one of them will soon leave for a new life across the sea. But the departure cannot happen as lying somewhere deep within the earth, in the far-off forest is Nam's father, a soldier, whose remains they're compelled to find. Together, following the mysteries of memories and dreams, they retrace the path to the past.

Minh Quý Trương

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Đào Duy Bảo Định

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Nguyễn Thị Nga

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Lê Viết Tụng

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Lê Hồ Lan

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Lovia Gyarkye

The Hollywood Reporter

Quy has accomplished something special with Viet and Nam.

Oct 4, 2024

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Eric Henderson

Slant Magazine

Truong Minh Quy’s new queer romance-cum-sociohistorical lament mines beauty from both collective desolation and individual endurance.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 6, 2024

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Jessica Kiang

Variety

Viet and Nam makes demands on even the most patient of viewers if they’re in any way resistant to the hypnotizing effect of its difficult, doom-laden atmospherics. But it does exert a powerful gravity on those who can give themselves over.

May 29, 2024

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Alistair Ryder

View of the Arts

If you can acclimatize to its very deliberate pacing, you’ll be rewarded with a quietly haunting tale of a doomed relationship, albeit one where the quietness often comes into conflict with such a historically potent backdrop.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 21, 2025

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Walter Chaw

Film Freak Central

Truong Minh Quy’s Viet and Nam is a love story, it’s first about lovers meeting and then about how their identities flow into each other like mercury, in constant flux and only ever itself.

Rated: 4/4

Nov 26, 2024

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Diego Batlle

Otroscines.com

Viêt and Nam is a beautiful, enigmatic, painful, and at times, fascinating film. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 3.5/5

Oct 16, 2024

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Synopsis

In the depths of the underground coal mines, where danger awaits and darkness prevails, Nam and Việt, both young miners, cherish fleeting moments, knowing that one of them will soon leave for a new life across the sea. But the departure cannot happen as lying somewhere deep within the earth, in the far-off forest is Nam's father, a soldier, whose remains they're compelled to find. Together, following the mysteries of memories and dreams, they retrace the path to the past.

Director: Minh Quý Trương
Producer: Bradley Liew, Bianca Balbuena
Screenwriter: Minh Quý Trương
Distributor: Strand Releasing
Production Co: Volos Films Italia, An Original Picture, Epic Media, Deuxieme Ligne Films, Lagi Limited, E&W Films, Scarlet Visions
Genre: Drama, Romance, LGBTQ+
Original Language: Vietnamese
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 28, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 2h 9m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.66:1)