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Overseas Vietnamese directors Tran Anh Hung and Timothy Linh Bui have hit the big time after producing several art-house favorites and are now shooting films with Hollywood stars.
Vietnam-born French director Tran Anh Hung, 47, is up to his ears with the film I Come with the Rain, which tells the story of an American detective who tracks the case of a Chinese billionare’s missing son all the way to Hong Kong.
The US$18 million film stars American Josh Hartnett, Canadian Elias Koteas, Japanese Takuya Kimura and overseas Vietnamese Tran Nu Yen Khe.
Rain marks Hung’s return to the movie industry after an eight-year break since he released the critically acclaimed Vertical Ray of the Sun in 2000.
Tran is possible the Vietnamese diaspora’s best known filmmaker. He broke out with The Scent of Green Papaya in 1993,m which earned him the Golden Camera and Youth Award at Cannes.
He returned with the dark and turbulent Cyclo in 1995, which gained somewhat of a cult following.
His films are always complex and atmospheric. Cyclo is a portrait of Saigon, The Vertical Ray of the Sun a meditation on Hanoi. For Cyclo, Tran was awarded the Golden Lion at the 1995 Venice Film Festival.
In addition to Hung’s new move to Hollywood, Vietnamese American Timothy Linh Bui has a star studded cast featuring Jessica Biel, Oscar winner Forest Whitaker and Patrick Swayze for his new film Powder Blue, which is about a mosaic of people desperately searching for redemption, human connection, and restored faith in Los Angeles’ seedy underbelly.
Linh Bui is brother of director Tony Bui, with whom he co-collaborated on Three Seasons, which won the Audience Award, the Cinematography Award, and the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival 1999.
Bui’s new film follows the lives of a mortician, an ex-con, a suicidal ex-priest and a stripper who wind up together on Christmas Eve.
Its script is penned by Bui himself, based on a story written by Stephanie Gauger who wrote Owl and the Sparrow.
Producers hope the film will be ready for the Sundance Film Festival early next year.
Source: Tuoi Tre – Compiled by Luu Thi Hong
Vietnam-born French director Tran Anh Hung, 47, is up to his ears with the film I Come with the Rain, which tells the story of an American detective who tracks the case of a Chinese billionare’s missing son all the way to Hong Kong.
The US$18 million film stars American Josh Hartnett, Canadian Elias Koteas, Japanese Takuya Kimura and overseas Vietnamese Tran Nu Yen Khe.
Rain marks Hung’s return to the movie industry after an eight-year break since he released the critically acclaimed Vertical Ray of the Sun in 2000.
Tran is possible the Vietnamese diaspora’s best known filmmaker. He broke out with The Scent of Green Papaya in 1993,m which earned him the Golden Camera and Youth Award at Cannes.
He returned with the dark and turbulent Cyclo in 1995, which gained somewhat of a cult following.
His films are always complex and atmospheric. Cyclo is a portrait of Saigon, The Vertical Ray of the Sun a meditation on Hanoi. For Cyclo, Tran was awarded the Golden Lion at the 1995 Venice Film Festival.
In addition to Hung’s new move to Hollywood, Vietnamese American Timothy Linh Bui has a star studded cast featuring Jessica Biel, Oscar winner Forest Whitaker and Patrick Swayze for his new film Powder Blue, which is about a mosaic of people desperately searching for redemption, human connection, and restored faith in Los Angeles’ seedy underbelly.
Linh Bui is brother of director Tony Bui, with whom he co-collaborated on Three Seasons, which won the Audience Award, the Cinematography Award, and the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival 1999.
Bui’s new film follows the lives of a mortician, an ex-con, a suicidal ex-priest and a stripper who wind up together on Christmas Eve.
Its script is penned by Bui himself, based on a story written by Stephanie Gauger who wrote Owl and the Sparrow.
Producers hope the film will be ready for the Sundance Film Festival early next year.
Source: Tuoi Tre – Compiled by Luu Thi Hong
Tran Anh Hung's movie is called "I come with the rain" starring --Cast: Josh Hartnett, Elias Koteas, Takuya Kimura, Byung-hun Lee, Tran Nu Yên-Khê,
Release Date: 2008
