Don Duong – Heroic Cinema https://www.heroic-cinema.com The guide to Asian movies in Australia Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:08:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 18894642 Sandy Lives (1999) https://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/sandy-lives-1999/ Thu, 31 Jul 2003 23:59:59 +0000 http://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/sandy-lives-1999/ Sandy Lives is this year’s Vietnamese entry into the festival but also similar in feeling to Land of Wandering Souls, the Cambodian doco from last year. If you’ve seen either, you will know what I mean.

Sparse, tragic and poetic — both detail the struggles of everyday people under adverse circumstances, although Sandy Lives concerns more of the aftermath where a struggle of a different kind continues for Canh, a communist cadre. He is returning to his village after … (read more)

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