Journey From the Fall
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| Directed by | Ham Tran |
| Produced by | Lam Nguyen Ham Tran |
| Written by | Ham Tran |
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Kieu Chinh Long Nguyen Diem Lien Cat Ly |
| Music by | Christopher Wong |
| Cinematography | Guillermo Rosas Julie Kirkwood |
| Edited by | Ham Tran |
| Distributed by | ImaginAsian Pictures |
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135 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language |
Vietnamese English |
Journey from the Fall (Vietnamese: Vượt Sóng) is a 2006 independent film by writer/director/editor Ham Tran, about the Vietnamese reeducation camp and boat people experience following the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. This drama was released on March 23, 2007, by ImaginAsian to sold-out screenings. The film is notable for having been financed entirely by the Vietnamese American community.
The film traces the story of a family's struggle for survival in the aftermath of the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 to North Vietnam's communist regime. After her South Vietnamese Army husband Long, is imprisoned in a North Vietnamese reeducation camp, Mai, her son Lai, and her mother-in-law escape Vietnam by boat in the hopes of starting a new life in Southern California. Believing his family is dead, Long gives up in the face of brutal conditions, while Mai struggles to keep her family from crumbling under the pressures of life in a new country. When Long learns his family is alive in America, he is reinvigorated and decides he must join them at any cost.
The film was received with critical acclaim. In the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, it received a score of 92% with a certified "Fresh" rating with the consensus being that "Ham Tran's ambitious film proves to be extremely powerful due to stunning photography and passionate performances" and is currently ranked 27th in the Top 100 Best Movies of 2007.
Matt Zoller Seitz of The New York Times remarked that the director "achieves the impossible" and called it a "tearjerker".
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