Movie Description:
From Tran Anh Hung, the internationally acclaimed director of "The Scent of Green Papaya" and "Cyclo",comes the richly sensual, deeply movingtale of tradition, love and deception inthe magical city of Hanoi, Vietnam. Lien, Suong andKhan are three sisters who, together with a brother, twohusbands and a child, are living and loving in the supportive clan they`ve forged since the deaths of their parents. But there are deep secretsthat are being kept that threaten to disrupt the harmony andbalance of theirdaily existence, making life much more tenuousand complicated than it seems onthe surface. "As if scented with lemongrass and ginger, Tran Anh Hung`s THE VERTICAL RAY OF THE SUN linger on the palate with a tenaciousness thatbelies its delicacy."
