Synopsis

* 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!