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Monsoon

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United Kingdom, Hong Kong · 2020
1h 25m
Director Hong Khaou
Starring Henry Golding, Parker Sawyers, David Tran, Molly Harris
Genre Drama, Romance

When Kit returns to his native Vietnam for the first time in over thirty years, he struggles to recognize and identify with his surroundings. The aim of his travels – to find a place to scatter his parents’ ashes – thus becomes part of a journey back to his roots and to the discovery of his identity.

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Empire by

Beautifully shot and subtly delivered, Monsoon offers a poignant picture of the emigrant experience as well as Vietnam’s post-war hangover, while cementing Henry Golding’s position as a leading man to watch.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij

As he did in Lilting, Khaou in Monsoon finely sketches the complex inner lives and identities of a small group of characters and plugs them into a narrative that unfolds gradually but precisely, so audiences have the time to consider the work's larger thematic concerns.

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San Francisco Chronicle by David Lewis

Monsoon, an offbeat story about a man’s cultural dislocation in Vietnam, is more of a slow drip than a torrential downpour. It’s a lovely film that suddenly and magically can wash over you, then lose you in its opacities.

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Variety by Jessica Kiang

Monsoon is a graceful and truthfully irresolute investigation into the strange, often poignantly unreciprocated relationship that many first- and second-generation emigrants have with the far-off foreign country of the past.

80

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

It is about a homecoming that isn’t quite a homecoming, a reckoning with something not exactly there, an attempted reconciliation with people and places that can’t really be negotiated with.

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IndieWire by Ryan Lattanzio

This is a gentle and joyous film not to be slept on, even as its low-key aura lulls you into a soothed state of mind.

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Austin Chronicle by Steve Davis

As Monsoon unhurriedly paces towards an open-ended conclusion, you sense Kit will be in a better place than the one he occupied when he first stepped off the plane.

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Boston Globe by Ty Burr

A delicate, observant, and rather too quiescent drama of coming home to a strange land, Monsoon is an interesting change of pace for star Henry Golding (“Crazy Rich Asians”) and another musing on diaspora by the Cambodia-born British filmmaker Hong Khaou.

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