Ngo Kim Nhuy
Tran Thi Bich Yen
Tran Thi Hien
Lan Trinh
Trinh
T. Minh-ha |
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Name Viet Given Name Nam |
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| FILM STILLS | ||||||||
| 108 min. color and b&w film (1989) | ||||||||
| Directed, Written & Edited by | Trinh T. Minh-ha | |||||||
| Production & Lighting Designer | Jean-Paul Bourdier | |||||||
| Cinematography | Kathleen Beeler | |||||||
| Featuring | Khien
Lai Ngo Kim Nhuy Tran Thi Bich Yen Tran Thi Hien Lan Trinh |
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| The film evolves around questions of identity, popular memory and culture. While focusing on aspects of Vietnamese reality as seen through the lives and history of women resistance in Vietnam and in the U.S, it raises questions on the politics of interviewing and documenting. | ||||||||
| "A challenging and rewarding work that places Trinh T. Minh-ha as one of the leading American independent filmmakers of the 80's." | ||
| - New Directors/New Films | ||
| "Independent in thought and delicate in craftmanship, the film is strung with the tensile strength of piano wire" | ||
| - Karen Jaehne, Film Comment | ||
| "Most movies function on only one level, and that level is generally located below the waist and above the knees. Seldom do modern films venture north, toward the heart or, less likely, into the head. This is dangerous, unchartered territory, not found on the maps of most moviemakers. Surname Viet Given Name Nam is a film made with emotional confidence and intellectual nerve, a documentary that questions the nature of documentaries, a history that uses the testimony of poetry, a polemic that appeals to the heart." | ||
| - Gabriel Gabrenya, Dispatch Film Critic | ||
| "raw, sensual and emotional" | ||
| - Jeff Kaliss, The San Francisco Chronicle | ||
| "Keenly intelligent, sensuously multilayered... Emotionally, Surname Viet Given Name Nam leaves you with an impression of the courage and persistent strength of Vietnamese women, not in terms of propaganda-poster heroics but on the human level." | ||
| - Stuart Klawans, The Nation | ||
| "Offering every woman as Antigone, this is the most dignified Vietnam film yet" | ||
| - A. White, Film Comment | ||
| Festivals | |||
| New Directors/New Films | |||
| Toronto Festival of Festivals | |||
| Los Angeles (Filmex) | |||
| Creteil, France | |||
| Vancouver | |||
| Asian Pacific | |||
| Taipei Women's Film | |||
| London | |||
| Jerusalem | |||
| Bombay | |||
| Sao Paulo | |||
| Sydney | |||
| Melbourne | |||
| Hawaii |
| Awards | ||||
| First-Prize Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival | ||||
| First-Prize Film As Art, SECA, San Francisco | ||||
| Merit Award, Bombay Film Festival |