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8. Trần Anh Hùng - Eternity

Trần Anh Hùng entered the world film scene with a trilogy about Vietnam as strong and robust as a po mu tree.

He explored and showed the country like never before, capturing its tropicality and faces with sweat beads using radiant, fresh-coloured cinematography, Radiohead songs and the contemplative style of Bresson, Tarkovsky, Ozu and Kurosawa.

Characters barely speak in his films, so he relies on body language and unconventional shots or camera angles to squeeze expressiveness out of their actions. His two first efforts, The Scent of Green Papaya and Cyclo, could be described as modern masterpieces.

Éternité is his first French-language movie, a period drama based on Alice Ferney’s novel The Elegance of Widows.