Lâm Lê
1948 (78 лет)La pierre de l'attente
Tran Anh Hung
Marine Le Luong, Lâm Lê
Is the tale of a man and a woman, both boat people, who meet in a transit refugee camp in Indonesia. Years later, they live in Paris, married with a child. One day, the husband discovers that his wife happens to be his younger sister.
Stone of Expectation
La femme mariée de Nam Xuong
Tran Anh Hung
安藤陽月, Lâm Lê
The cinematic tale recounts the story of a woman whose husband has left for war. When night comes, she pretends to her child that the shadow projected on a sheet is his father. When the father returns, two years later, the child rejects him, telling him that his father only returns at night.
The Married Woman of Nam Xuong
Poussière d'empire
Lâm Lê
Dominique Sanda, Jean-François Stévenin
In 1954, escorted by a sergeant, a French nun travels through Tonkin, spreading the good Catholic word as she goes. A mute child leads her to a remote village. Installed at a carpenter, the travelers prepare the projection material indispensable to their propaganda. At nightfall, in a storm, a group of maquisards surrounded the house. Fortunately, the carpenter is a respected man. The attackers withdraw. After a sudden rise in water, the mute child loses the precious message that had been entrusted to him by a wounded maquis...
Dust of Empire
20 nuits et un jour de pluie
Lâm Lê
Natalia Wörner, Eric Nguyen
She was fleeing the West, and he the East. She was European, light-skinned, on her way back from Java, at the edge of the world. Once North-Vietnamese, now a proud Frenchman, he had an apartment in the center of Paris. This film tells the story of their embrace, 20 nights under the Parisian sky, in the shadow of Notre Dame. During these 20 nights they find refuge in each other's bodies.
20 Nights and a Rainy Day
