Song Lang(HKLGFF 2019)
* Director in attendance
Official Selection – Winner of Audience Award, Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival2019, Tokyo International Film Festival
SONG LANG is an exquisitely stylized tribute to cải lương (a form of modern Vietnamese folk opera), a queer romance, and gangster movie. Set in 1980s Vietnam, the film features Dung, a brooding debt collector who pays a visit to a cải lương company. He threatens to set the costumes ablaze unless the troupe pays up but at the same time he is fixated on a handsome young actor in the troupe. The film captures a dilapidated splendor that is shot like Wong Kar-Wai’s half-remembered, half-romanticized 1960s Hong Kong. Full of beautiful imageries, this is the gay Vietnamese IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE!
Director
Leon Le
Cast
Kieu Trinh, Isaac, Lien Binh Phat
Release Date
14-09-2019
Language
Vietnamese
Run Time
101 minutes
