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The Guava House

2002 · 100 min

A quiet, tender drift through one man's fading recollections, sad and gentle, asking patience as it lingers on loss.

Directed by: Dang Nhat Minh
Genres: Drama
Starring: Bùi Bài Bình, Lan Hương, Phạm Thu Thủy

Overview: A mentally challenged man spends his days working as an artist's model and visiting the now-occupied house of his childhood, where his beloved guava tree sits.

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Directed by: Dang Nhat Minh
Genres: Drama
Starring: Bùi Bài Bình, Lan Hương, Phạm Thu Thủy

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
isolation
class
family
identity
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	2
Tension	3
Darkness	5
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Dang Nhat Minh
Written by: Dang Nhat Minh
Starring: Bùi Bài Bình, Lan Hương, Phạm Thu Thủy, Lê Thị Hương Thảo, Hữu Độ, Phạm Khắc Lãm, Chiều Xuân, Trần Lực
Cinematography: Vũ Đức Tùng
Runtime: 100 min
Country: Vietnam
Languages: Vietnamese

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