HCMC – Film Screening “It’s such a Beautiful Day” by The Onion Cellar

Sun 21 Feb 2016, 8 pm
CineB

From the organizer:

The Onion Cellar presents a screening of “It’s such a Beautiful Day”.

‘You begin to see how death enriches life and gives everything its meaning’.

“IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY”

Dir – Don Hertzfeldt
2012, 62 minutes
English, with subtitles in Vietnamese

Offiicial Saigon premiere:
The Vietnam premiere of the film was part of The Onion Cellar’s Sad & Beautiful World film festival in 2013

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“Meet Bill, a disconnected, ailing man, as he drifts through the unreliable, disorientating fragments of his past and present. Bill sees the world through small moving holes, and his many, fragmented social encounters reveal a man who is paranoid, obsessed, anxious and generally unable to connect with the world around him.”

“It’s only after overcoming a serious illness (we assume it’s cancer) that Bill slowly begins to get it together and comes to see the beauty that life can offer when you’re looking.” (Chris Robinson – Sight and Sound Magazine)

“Bill’s been slapped in the face with something horrible and the world is looking very different to him: sad and beautiful. It’s somebody facing death who hasn’t really yet lived. The routine things he’s used to doing are suddenly completely redundant.”

“You begin to see how death enriches life and gives everything its meaning. It’s the people who drift around wasting their time, weirdly assuming they’re going to live forever, that are the depressing ones, at least to me.” (Don Hertzfeldt)

A couple of things:

Something not known (and remembered) by many: in one of its past lives (2011-2013) The Onion Cellar was a double-headed (tiny) monster, whose strange doings unfolding in tandem in both the North and the South. Ambient bliss at Saigon Outcast, noise terror at Dương Thụ’s Cà Phê Thứ Bảy, or how about those Sunday nights at Decibel? Or that time when Zeni Geva and CoCC shared the stage at the Darts Darts Darts (RIP)? Seriously, if you remember them moments (and us), you’re Kool (with a capital K)!

And now: not even joking. Thirty-one months after its last event in Saigon, The Onion Cellar will be back in the buzzing city. For now, ‘for one night only’ (to mark the new year? or perhaps the success of the con… ?) – ON A BEAUTIFUL ROOFTOP IN DOWNTOWN SAIGON – but who knows what the future might bring (right?)

Anyway, two of the films that have proved much loved by the folks in Hanoi will now make their way to Saigon for the first time, on the same night of the 21st of February

– by Oskar M

Tickets:

Tickets: 40,000 VND
Tickets for both Onion Cellar screenings that evening: 70,000 VND

In the same evening: “ROHMER IN PARIS”, for more information visit Facebook’s event or Hanoi Grapevine’s previous post.

For more information about film screening “It’s such a Beautiful Day”, visit Facebook’s event.