Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Name: Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Genre: Drama
Released: January 19, 2024
Duration: 178 min
Rating: 94
Cast: Dylan Besseau, Le Phong Vu, Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh, Nguyen Thinh, Vu Ngoc Manh

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: January 19, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Dylan Besseau, Le Phong Vu, Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh, Nguyen Thinh, Vu Ngoc Manh

Summary: 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 memoriesAfter 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. … Expand

Director: Thien An Pham

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 178 min

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Mar 5, 2024

The panoramic intelligence of this film is a wonder. Read full review

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Justin Chang

Jan 25, 2024

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell reminds us that confusion is often a necessary first step toward enlightenment, and that bafflement and beauty often go hand in hand. This is a lesson that Thiên must learn as well. The gift of this movie is that it invites us to learn it alongside him. Read full review

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Josh Larsen

Feb 9, 2024

You watch the film feeling as if life is precious—that every moment holds the chance for great wonder or great tragedy, even if, on most days, we live somewhere in between. Read full review

Guy Lodge

May 27, 2023

This is challenging but seductive art cinema that invites comparisons to such titans as Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tsai Ming-liang and even Theo Angelopoulos, without feeling derivative of any. Read full review

Collider Chase Hutchinson

Jan 18, 2024

Cinema as an art form is made infinitely richer via films like Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell. As we let it linger in our minds just as the camera does up until one final unbroken shot, you drift somewhere you've never been before and may never be again. Read full review

Alissa Wilkinson

Jan 18, 2024

Pham manages to float existential and spiritual questions into Thien’s consciousness and ours without trying to offer solutions, at least in language. Read full review

Zachary Barnes

Jan 18, 2024

There’s something singularly fulfilling in a film, like this one, that truly demands that most precious commodity: our attention. Read full review

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