As soon as you go away from the main road of cinema nations, the flood of information very soon getting very thin. I haven't been able to gather much information about this movie, its director or the main actors. It is barely mentioned in IMDb, but else extensive silence.
This is a pity, because the film is worth the viewing. It is a blend of Before Midnight and A Railway Station for Two (yes, the old Ryazanov film). It combines road movie elements with "romantic comedy". Sounds as if we al have seen it before and that thus there is no necessity to view this one also. Well, basically I hold the opinion that we cannot invent new plots anymore. Any situation has been described before, now it is only possible to re-arrange those existing elements. The writer Lê Phuong Khanh Nguyen arranges a clever plot.
1735 km - that is the distance between Hanoi and Saigon. In the express between these cities Kien and Tram Anh stumble upon each other. Kien is charmer, a man has many talents and doesn't make anything with his gifts. He improvises his life. Tram on the other hand is throughout an orderly person. Yes, the departure is like that. In between we also see different aspect of modern Vietnam, the jeunesse dorée, the middle class. The meeting of these two persons is like a dialectical process, both change and become more complete persons. The process is not straightforward, which makes this film quite charming and highly entertaining.
This is a link to the movie on YouTube
8/10
This is a pity, because the film is worth the viewing. It is a blend of Before Midnight and A Railway Station for Two (yes, the old Ryazanov film). It combines road movie elements with "romantic comedy". Sounds as if we al have seen it before and that thus there is no necessity to view this one also. Well, basically I hold the opinion that we cannot invent new plots anymore. Any situation has been described before, now it is only possible to re-arrange those existing elements. The writer Lê Phuong Khanh Nguyen arranges a clever plot.
1735 km - that is the distance between Hanoi and Saigon. In the express between these cities Kien and Tram Anh stumble upon each other. Kien is charmer, a man has many talents and doesn't make anything with his gifts. He improvises his life. Tram on the other hand is throughout an orderly person. Yes, the departure is like that. In between we also see different aspect of modern Vietnam, the jeunesse dorée, the middle class. The meeting of these two persons is like a dialectical process, both change and become more complete persons. The process is not straightforward, which makes this film quite charming and highly entertaining.
This is a link to the movie on YouTube
8/10
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