I try not to be too dogmatic these days about telling people that there are certain movies they should see only on the big screen. That said, if there is one movie right now that you should see in a ...

There’s a single-take sequence in “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell” that, over roughly 20 minutes and less than a mile’s journey, seems to distill a small corner of eternity. We are somewhere in the ...

Thien An Pham’s debut feature follows a prodigal son’s search for both his missing brother and something worth living for. An intimate three-hour epic of deliberate pacing, Vietnamese writer-director ...

The experience of Vietnamese writer-director Thien An Pham‘s quietly astounding Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, winner of the Caméra d'Or for best first feature at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, is ...

An uncommonly strong debut from the Vietnamese director Pham Thien An asks existential questions without answers. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

Thien An Pham's supremely accomplished first feature may seem narratively slender for its three-hour runtime, but its layered abundance of sensory detail casts an unshakable spell. Fully delivering on ...

There’s a single-take sequence in “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell” that, over roughly 20 minutes and less than a mile’s journey, seems to distill a small corner of eternity. We are somewhere in the ...