‘Viet and Nam’ Review: History Is a Shallow Grave in a Plaintive, Penumbral Queer Romance
Late 20th-century Vietnamese history casts a trancelike spell across Truong Minh Quy’s “Viet and Nam,” a thickly shadowed exploration – or should that be excavation? — of national trauma and its habit of living on, in spectral form, through subsequent generations. Given its edge of radical newness from its frank, grimily beautiful portrayal of gay […]