Viet and Nam

Name: Viet and Nam
Genre: Drama
Released: March 28, 2025
Duration: 129 min
Rating: 83

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: March 28, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: In the underground coal mines, Nam and Viet, young miners, face danger and darkness. One prepares to leave for a new life, but they must find Nam's father's remains, a soldier lost in a faraway forest, retracing the past through memories.

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 129 min

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RogerEbert.com Simon Abrams

Mar 28, 2025

Việt and Nam only initially looks like something that you might expect to find on John Waters’ Best of the Year list. Soon enough the movie becomes a gentle romance about loving the dead. Read full review

Lisa Kennedy

Mar 27, 2025

Quy treats the love affair between Viet and Nam with exquisite tenderness. Read full review

Justin Chang

Apr 4, 2025

Việt and Nam is a series of excavations, and, for all its gentle cadences—a shot of jungle leaves rustling in the wind about approximates the story’s rhythm—it seems to unearth new mysteries and paradoxes by the minute. Read full review

IndieWire Josh Slater-Williams

Jun 5, 2024

While a degree of naturalism does still make its way into many slow-burn scenes, Quy’s filmmaking largely favors expressionism. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Aug 5, 2025

Viet and Nam is a film that first feels opaque and elusive, and yet it becomes drenched with emotion. Read full review

Manuel Betancourt

Apr 7, 2025

Việt and Nam is both simple and cryptic. Its spellbinding pleasures reward a patient audience who’ll be swayed (and may well swoon) over its hypnotic wonders. Read full review

G. Allen Johnson

Apr 24, 2025

While “Viet and Nam” is filled from beginning to end with outstanding visuals and thought-provoking ideas, it is perhaps too lethargic and, at a little over two hours, overlong. Yet there is still much to enjoy. Read full review

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