| Description |
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD, Region 1, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo, Dolby Surround 5.1, widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.85:1. |
| Cast |
Trân Nû Yên Khê (Lien), Nguyên Nhû Quŷnh (Suong), Lê Khanh (Khanh), Ngô Quang Hâi (Hai), Chu Hûng (Quoc), Trân Manh Cuông (Kien), Lê Tuân Anh (Tuan). |
| Credits |
Images [Director of photography], Mark Lee ; montage [editing], Mario Battistel ; musique originale [original music composed by], Tôn Thât Tiêt ; sous-titres Anglais [English subtitles] Liz Miller ; |
| Note |
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000. |
| Audience |
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13. |
| Summary |
Three sisters-Lien, Khanh, and Suong-whose parents have recently died come together on the anniversary of the mother's death, preparing the memorial dinner. The men in their lives include their brother Hai, and husbands Kien and Quoc. The family is, however, prey to all the romantic entanglements, confessions, secrets, passions and troubles that eventually ensnare all. With Chekhovian decorum, the film examines the domestic emotions and small eruptions of feeling that punctuate the slow, vaguely sorrowful serenity of the sister's daily lives. |
| Contents |
Start -- Liên & Hai -- Khanh -- Quôc's photos -- Disgusting things -- Tuân -- Memorial & meal -- Mother's Toan -- Sing-along -- Writer's block -- "I'm pregnant." -- Vow of silence -- Rainy day story -- Looking for Ho -- Harmony -- Bui Kim Ngan -- Family reunion -- "I must go back." -- Stood up -- An invitation -- Indiscreet question -- Room 324 -- "Dance with me." -- Good vibrations -- Quôc returns -- Back from Saigon -- Suong's hope -- Unmarried & pregnant? |
| Note |
Special features: Filmographies [text feature] ; Theatrical trailers [The Vertical Ray of the Sun and other Sony Pictures Classics features]. |
| Language |
In Vietnamese with optional English subtitles ; closed-captioned in English. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Families -- Drama.
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Adultery -- Drama.
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Love -- Vietnam -- Drama.
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Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Foreign films.
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Motion pictures, Vietnamese.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Trân, Anh Hùng, 1963-
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Rossignon, Christophe.
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Tran, Nu Yên-Khê.
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Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
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Productions Lazennec.
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Studio Canal+.
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Arte France cinéma (Firm)
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)
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| Added Title |
 la verticale de l'été |
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Vertical ray of the sun |
| ISBN |
0767866339 |
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9780767866330 |
| Standard No. |
043396063914 |
| Music No. |
06391 Sony Pictures Classics |
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