like "Lilting", it's a movie which benefits enormously from its strikingly authentic performances; At its best, "Monsoon" is an observational character piece which tenderly explores the multi-faceted ties that bind people both to locations and each other
British-Cambodian writer-director Hong Khaou follows-up his delicate debut "Lilting" with another elegant study of cultural alienation and displacement as a young man born in Vietnam but raised in the UK returns home after three decades
an intimate drama of surprising depth; It's a glorious moment of cinema, combining the expert use of actors, their glances and body language, and the fascinating interplay between what's said out loud and what remains unspoken to beguiling effect
a well-acted, gracefully shot; a graceful and truthfully irresolute investigation into the strange, often poignantly unreciprocated relationship that many first- and second-generation emigrants have with the far-off foreign country of the past
by Shaun Munro [Flickering Myth ]
