Last night I watched a very warm and sophisticated Vietnamese movie "The Story of Pao" at Astro's Kirana Channel, about a young ethnic Hmong woman named Pao who sets off to find her mother. The story develops the concept of love from different points of view, both traditional and modern, and seeks to share an intimate look at Vietnam and the Hmong people. The magnificent mountain ranges of Northwest Vietnam, engulfed year-round in an immense veil of fog, provide a rich cinematic setting for this vivid and moving film. This movie won a few film awards such as the Special Jury Award at the Asia Film Festival in 2006 and suppose to be nominated in the 2007 Annual Academy Awards (Oscars) in the Best Foreign Film category (if I'm not mistaken lah). The music in the film is uniquely great. Check out the trailer here:
What interest me most about this movie is that it shows the beautiful part of Vietnam - the highlands of Sapa and the culture of the Hmong Tribes...just fascinates me! I would really love to go there and live with the locals for a few days..I can already imagine the adventure...glad that my sister Deb might organise a trip to Sapa someday/sometime soon.
The magnificient scenery of Sapa
The Hmong people in their colorful costumes...I like...I want!
Anyways, I'm still recuperating from this irritating cough (it's been two weeks) but I still have the heart to eat ice-cream from Karamell Almondo, the newest soft ice cream concept bar in town. Strange that I'm recovering already after eating them...and then I'm off to buy Slumdog Millionaire's movie soundtrack and probably buy a Korean movie or drama to watch for the weekend.
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So nice Photo
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