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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This drama about a young man's journey with his 5-year-old nephew into the Vietnamese countryside is composed mostly in long, unbroken takes —... 'Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell' is a film where a big ...