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Audio Format: DD 2.0 Video Format: Widescreen 1.85:1 (Anamorphic) Languages: Vietnamese Subtitles: English Region Code: 2, PAL Year Made: 2000 Running Time: 112
Please note: Please verify that PAL formatted DVD will play on your machine prior to purchasing this title. (PAL TV and DVD players required.)
 "The Vertical Ray of the Sun" is a wholly enveloping experience. Gentle, ravishingly beautiful and awash in everyday sensuality, it so intoxicates you with the elegance and refinement of its filmmaking that even noticing, let alone caring, whether it has a plot starts to seem beside the point.
Written and directed by Tran Anh Hung, "Vertical Ray" does in fact have a story line, one that investigates love, marriage and faithfulness as they play out in the romantic lives of three Vietnamese sisters, but no one will come out of this film compelled to deconstruct the narrative.
The lure of "Vertical Ray" is its sophisticated blending of delicate music, restrained acting and a seemingly casual but immaculate use of breathtaking color. Cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-Bin, who worked with Christopher Doyle on Wong Kar-wai's "In the Mood for Love," delivers just as much of a visual tour de force with this film's exquisite pastel shades.
"Vertical Ray" marks a return to form for writer-director Tran. His Oscar-nominated debut, "The Scent of Green Papaya," set in a luscious 1950s Vietnam he created in a French studio, was very much this kind of film. Tran followed that with the determinedly different "Cyclo," which depicted the chaos of today's Ho Chi Minh City to little effect except irritation.
With "Vertical Ray," Tran stays in the present and, for the third movie in a row, features his graceful wife, Tran Nu Yen-Khe. The setting this time is Hanoi, depicted in such an inviting way that it could incite a tourism boom of harried Westerners panting to experience a civilization that values leisure and beauty, a polite, unhurried earthly paradise where there's always time for jewel-like meals and everything is unself-consciously color-coordinated. This world may not really exist, but it is hard to resist on film.
"Vertical Ray" focuses on a close family of four siblings--three sisters and a brother--and opens as the alarm goes off in the small apartment Lien (Tran Nu Yen-Khe), the youngest sister, shares with brother Hai (Ngo Quang Hai).
Special Features:
- Theatrical Trailers
- Production Notes
- Filmographies
- Behind The Scenes Footage
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