Young and troubled Le Quoc Phong lives in a village in Vietnam with one single thought: travelling to Hanoi to have a sex-change operation. In an über-redundant selfie-mode, he proves his anguish by elaborating in tears –and yet also a curious dry crying– on the horrors he is facing. The recipient of this confession as well as the crying –which aims to liquefy moral implications within a conservative family– is his mother. It’s hard to see a more Oedipus-like drama than the one Phong is living. However, since the true willing are those who flee from their mothers, Phong bravely goes through the cruel sex-change procedure in a Hanoi clinic, accompanied from a prudent distance by his brother, the softer representative of his family, which hardens in reticence. Finding Phong is no more and no less than a clinical experience with a sentimental background, in which the element that is missing becomes very present: that inner (female) nature that drags Phong up to the OR. His brother gets him better than anyone when he renounces understanding and delivers himself to “full tolerance.” JJB
Sections: Panorama Competencia DDHHD: Tran Phuong Thao, Swann Dubus
F: Le Quoc Phong, Tran Phuong Thao, Swann Dubus
E: Aurelie Ricard
S: Hoang Thu Thuy
M: Piotr Ilich Tchaikovski
P: Nicole Pham
PE: Gerald Herman
CP: Discovery Communications, Varan Vietnam
Le Cuoq Phong
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Born in France in 1977, he studied film at New Sorbonne University Paris 3. His documentaries include L Ville (2007) and With or Without Me (2011; with Tran Phuong Thao).
05 May 2015
25 April 2015
25 April 2015
