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...munch on the reasons that critics, nestled in the comfort of their intellectual splendor, overvalue works that say life stinks. For now, we'll note that any serious film with a bright or dewy eye runs the risk of exile from the received canon of dark and Sturmy cinema...
...Girls, produced by Ho Chi Minh City's Liberation Films, is part of a new wave of Vietnamese state-sanctioned cinema that mixes sensational story lines with the Communist Party's campaign against "social evils." Set in the nightclubs and slums of Ho Chi Minh City, the film follows doomed prostitutes Hoa (My Duyen), a heroin-addicted rich girl who works nightclubs for kicks, and Hanh (Minh Thu), a gentle soul who dreams of a better life. Needless to say, neither sees a happy ending...
...Will communist cinema still dominate once private studios gear up? The government thinks it has the winning formula. Its next big production is Luoi Troi (Heaven's Net), which chronicles the lavish spending of corrupt officials and criminals. Hoang, who as a state employee, makes less than $100 a month, is already thinking like a Hollywood mogul-he's penning a sequel, Bar Girls 2. Speculation about the plot is already rife, since the original's main characters are all either dead or dying of AIDS. "People will just have to buy a ticket and see," he says. No doubt...
...films are generally a bit of a circus,” Nair laughs. “I just can’t imagine making a movie of two people eating sushi. I aspire to make cinema that reflects density, complicatedness of life and that celebrates people...
...hectare Chitranjali Film Studios - which Adoor helped found, like almost everything else that has to do with cinema in Kerala - we discover that the first print of his autobiographical masterpiece, Man of the Story, has disintegrated in the tropical heat. Adoor shakes his head and laughs gently. "When you see the print degrade like that, you realize what you do is ephemeral," he says. "It's something you spend so much effort on, but it dissolves so quickly...