Vinyan (2008)

Highly Recommended

France/Belgium/UK

Feature Film

Director: Fabrice Du Welz

Writers: Fabrice Du Welz, David Greig, Oliver Blackburn

Cinematographer: Benoît Debie

Composer: François-Eudes Chanfrault

Cast: Emmanuelle Béart, Rufus Sewell, Petch Osathanugrah, Julie Dreyfus, Amporn Pankratok

Six months after losing their son in the 2004 tsunami in Thailand, a couple of aid-workers set off into a Burmese jungle, accompanied by a pair of Triads, in the vain hope of finding him, believing that they may have seen him in an aid video, in Du Welz’s formally adventurous (but not flashy), bravely acted, and decidedly disquieting examination of fear, guilt, and grief – imagine a hybrid of Don't Look Now (1973) and Apocalypse Now (1979). Iain.Stott