While Nam, Hoa, Ba (Le Viet Tung), who fought alongside Nam’s father and carries a secret, and Viet travel south to find the burial site, Nam is also making plans to leave Vietnam.

‘Viet and Nam’ Review: History Is a Shallow Grave in a Plaintive, Penumbral Queer Romance Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard), May 24, 2024. Running time: 129 MIN.

Viet and Nam, which premiered at Cannes in May in the Un Certain Regard sidebar before bowing this week at New York Film Festival, is a dreamy observation of romantic devotion and haunted histories.

Vietnamese director Minh Quy Truong’s third feature Viet and Nam, featuring at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, is a valiant, opaque expression of Vietnam’s collective trauma centred on two gay ...