Influences and Style of Film-making
Trần's films are made so as to rebuild the image of Vietnam that he has lost when immigrating into France and to provide audience with another point of view on Vietnam while this topic has been long dominated by French and American cinema. The stories are based on Trần's knowledge about Vietnamese language and culture and (in the second and third films) his first-hand experience gained from trips to the country.
Trần is strongly influenced by French cinema and from some European and Japanese filmmakers, namely Bergman, Bresson, Kurosawa, Tarkovsky and Ozu.
Trần’s style of filmmaking is expressed through the claim: Art is the truth wearing mask (interview originally in Vietnamese). He denies the conventional story-telling style and pursues making films with a new language: to challenges the audience’s feeling, making them enjoy the films not with the critical reasoning but the body language.
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