Tran Anh Hung

Trần Anh Hùng born December 23 1962 Đà Nẵng is a French filmmaker of Vietnamese ancestry Hùng was born in Mỹ Tho South Vietnam Following the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 he immigrated to France at age 12 He majored in philosophy at a university in France By chance he saw Robert Bressons film A Man Escaped and decided to study film instead He went on to study photography at the Louis Lumiere Academy which trains cinematographers Hùng has been at the forefront of a wave of acclaimed overseas Vietnamese cinema over the past two decades His films have received international fame and acclaim and his first three features were varied meditations on life in his home country Vietnam Hùngs Oscarnominated debut for Best foreign film was The Scent of Green Papaya 1993 which also won two top prizes at the Cannes Film Festival His followup Cyclo 1995 which featured Hong Kong movie star Tony Leung ChiuWai won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival The Vertical Ray of the Sun released in 2000 was the third film in his Vietnam trilogy After a sabbatical Hùng returned with the noir psychological thriller I Come with the Rain 2009 which featured a starstudded international cast including Josh Hartnett and Elias Koteas Hùng directed Norwegian Wood an adaptation of Haruki Murakamis novel of the same name which released in Japan in December 2010 After Eternity in 2016 his return in a French production The The PotauFeu is announced in February 2022 with Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel in the cast