The movie 'Indochina' and the silent 'tourism ambassadors' for Vietnam

Hollywood is the world's most attractive tourism promotion agency, CNN once wrote. Good movies are a great reason to lead viewers to a land. For Vietnam, it is indispensable to have The Quiet American, The Lover or Indochina.

On the occasion of the director and main actors of the film Indochina coming to Vietnam to attend the 2016 Hanoi International Film Festival and interact with the audience tonight (November 2) at the National Cinema Center, let's review these films.

Recently, Charlie On Travel website selected 4 impressive movies (filmed in Vietnam or not) that could be "tourism ambassadors", with the criteria: less gunfire and more human voices.

1. Indochina

Many people said they fell in love with Vietnam and wanted to visit the country after watching Indochina (1992), the French film that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

The film is set in Indochina during the struggle for independence from French colonialism. The main character is the French plantation owner Éliane Devries (played by Catherine Deneuve). In Hanoi, visitors can visit the cafe where Deneuve sat with a cup of coffee and a croissant every morning during filming. The cafe is called Kinh Do, located on Hang Bong Street.

2. The Lover

Few Vietnamese people have not heard of The Lover, a classic love story that came to the screen from the novel by French writer Marguerite Duras. In 1992, the film brought the image of Saigon - Cho Lon to life like never before. Moreover, who is not curious about the love story between an Eastern man and a Western girl in the "Pearl of the Far East"?

The film is elegant, classic, erotic and rebellious. It is also the film with the most profound psychological depiction of the characters in Vietnam. The mark of the two actors Jane March and Tony Leung Ka-fai is also extremely profound. After many decades, The Lover is still a classic film, unaffected by the times.

3. The Quiet American

There are two films of The Quiet American adapted from the novel of the same name by writer Graham Greene, in 1958 and 2002 respectively. Here we are talking about the 2002 version. A story of life and humanity. Dark, hesitant between morality and love, the film is set in the context of the American intervention war during the French invasion of Vietnam.

The film revolves around a love triangle between a British journalist (Michael Caine), an American charity doctor (Brendan Fraser) and a Vietnamese girl (Hai Yen). This relationship represents the “civilizing” West and the “mysterious, strange” East in a deeper and more mature way than most films of the same kind.

The Quiet American is a film that left a deep impression in Vietnam. The film was shot in Hanoi, Saigon, Ninh Binh and Hoi An. The Hotel Continental Saigon was also where writer Graham Greene lived during the time he wrote the novel in 1951, moving between Saigon and Ben Tre.

4. Full Metal Jacket

The 1987 film by legendary director Stanley Kubrick has a different perspective than all the other films about the Vietnam War. The film's title, "In Vietnam, even the wind doesn't blow, it gasps for air" is one of the most impressive cinematic titles, talking about the suffocation of the war in Vietnam in the eyes of Americans.

Not a positive view but the film stimulates the viewer's curiosity about our country. Iron Armor is set in Hue but not filmed in Vietnam.

According to Thethaovanhoa