SAT JAN 27, 2024 7:00 PM

INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL

$10.00 (member); $15.00 (general admission)

Aero Theatre | Limited Engagement

Camera d’Or Winner at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival

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  • RELEASED IN: 2023
  • 178 MINUTES
  • DIRECTED BY: Pham Thien An

ABOUT THE FILM: 

In Vietnamese with English subtitles. 

The enthralling INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL from Vietnamese filmmaker Pham An Thien 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.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

COUNTRY: Vietnam, Singapore, France, Spain