Journey from the Fall R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 30, 2007
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Imaginasian
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Long Nguyen & Kieu Chinh | |
Performer: | Diem Lien, Nguyen Thai Nguyen, Jayvee Mai The Hiep, Khanh Doan & Cat Ly | |
Directed by | Ham Tran | |
Screenwriting by | Ham Tran | |
Composition by | Christopher Wong | |
Produced by | Lam Nguyen | |
Director of Photography: | Julie Kirkwood & Guillermo Rosas |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Beautifully photographed and acted, it's a story that sticks with you.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Rating: 4/5 --
A stunningly ambitious Vietnamese-American indie film that aims to wrap up the whole of the Vietnamese experience into a Vietnamese Exodus.
Orlando Sentinel
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A first-rate cast, script, committed director and physical production that burns with authenticity make Journey From the Fall affecting history for all who wish to avoid the doom of forgetting its lesson.
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Seattle Times
Rating: 3/5 --
An emotionally moving film that presents the story of the Vietnam War aftermath from the perspective of those who once called themselves Vietnamese.
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Austin Chronicle
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A story that needed to be told.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Even when its wires are showing, the movie's soul is always evident.
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Boston Globe
Rating: 3/4 --
It's to the great credit of Tran and his cast that the movie has such immediacy, gracefulness and power.
Globe and Mail
Product Description:
With its harrowing tale of a Vietnamese family's experiences following the fall of Saigon in 1975, JOURNEY FROM THE FALL depicts a side of the Vietnam War that has seldom been depicted on the screen. Foregoing much explanation of the country's political turmoil, director Ham Tran (who also wrote and edited) instead chooses to dwell on the emotionally fertile ground of an anti-communist family's efforts to reunite and find freedom when their homeland becomes uninhabitable.
Imprisoned in a brutal communist re-education camp in 1981, Long (Long Nguyen) must endure brutal beatings and indescribable squalor at the hands of his abductors. Having made the choice several years before to remain in Vietnam and fight, he urged his wife, Mai (Diem Len); mother, Ba Noi (Kieu Chinh); and young son, Lai (Nguyen Thai Nguyen), to attempt escape by boat. The three endure a torturous journey by sea, finally arriving and setting in Orange County, California. Unsure if she'll ever see her husband again, Mai begins a relationship with Nam (Khanh Doan), the captain who brought her to the U.S. Meanwhile, Lai has difficulty adapting to school, often getting into trouble. Fueled by a furtively received packet of his son's drawings, Long attempts to escape and find his family. Realistic and free of Hollywood sentiment, JOURNEY FROM THE FALL is unflinching in its look at the lives of the "boat people." Tran's use of shifts in time within the narrative (much like Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's 21 GRAMS) give the first portion of the film an impressionistic feel, but the strong performances are straightforward and effective in their portrayal of people forced to leave home, only to find that freedom is still rife with restrictions.
Imprisoned in a brutal communist re-education camp in 1981, Long (Long Nguyen) must endure brutal beatings and indescribable squalor at the hands of his abductors. Having made the choice several years before to remain in Vietnam and fight, he urged his wife, Mai (Diem Len); mother, Ba Noi (Kieu Chinh); and young son, Lai (Nguyen Thai Nguyen), to attempt escape by boat. The three endure a torturous journey by sea, finally arriving and setting in Orange County, California. Unsure if she'll ever see her husband again, Mai begins a relationship with Nam (Khanh Doan), the captain who brought her to the U.S. Meanwhile, Lai has difficulty adapting to school, often getting into trouble. Fueled by a furtively received packet of his son's drawings, Long attempts to escape and find his family. Realistic and free of Hollywood sentiment, JOURNEY FROM THE FALL is unflinching in its look at the lives of the "boat people." Tran's use of shifts in time within the narrative (much like Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's 21 GRAMS) give the first portion of the film an impressionistic feel, but the strong performances are straightforward and effective in their portrayal of people forced to leave home, only to find that freedom is still rife with restrictions.