Hearing Thính Giác Vanguard
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North American Premiere
Fresh off the Locarno Film Festival, Bảo Lê makes his North American VIFF entrance with this lush, meticulously composed feature debut that unfolds as a series of film tableaux, drawing on moments in the life of a middle-aged mechanic whose work involves installing decibel meters across public spaces. At home, he anticipates the deafening silence of his mother’s passing.
Blending audio parameters into its narrative, Hearing rides the ebbs and flows of characters’ daily rhythms, using soundscape as an emotional regulator — from village raves to moments of quiet stillness in the beautiful Vietnamese forests. Scenes glide into each other like visual poems, revealing themselves through sequences of measured exchanges, all speaking to deeper existential truths. Within each frame is a world sensory abundance and meditation on presence. This is slow cinema at its finest register.
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Fresh off the Locarno Film Festival, Bảo Lê makes his North American VIFF entrance with this lush, meticulously composed feature debut that unfolds as a series of film tableaux, drawing on moments in the life of a middle-aged mechanic whose work involves installing decibel meters across public spaces. At home, he anticipates the deafening silence of his mother’s passing.
Blending audio parameters into its narrative, Hearing rides the ebbs and flows of characters’ daily rhythms, using soundscape as an emotional regulator — from village raves to moments of quiet stillness in the beautiful Vietnamese forests. Scenes glide into each other like visual poems, revealing themselves through sequences of measured exchanges, all speaking to deeper existential truths. Within each frame is a world sensory abundance and meditation on presence. This is slow cinema at its finest register.
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