Review of Marguerite (2015) by Viet Phuong N — 07 Feb 2016

An extremely strange film. Very beautiful, very nostalgic, profoundly emotional, but confusing and lack of focus at the same time. One can say that watching this film is similar to having a dream, where the story flows from one setting to a totally different one in a heartbeat, where the protagonist of the first few sequences is relegated to just a tiny role by the end, where the underlying message bounces back and forth to the utmost astonishment of us - the audience (yes, similar to "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", in a way).

Those form the film's uniqueness, but such confusing script also undermined the emotion build-up that the director and the excellent cast had tried the whole film. Still, a very beautiful and heart-breaking film, an excellent experience to open a new [Lunar] year.