Rent Monsoon (2019)

Return of the place of my birth - Monsoon review by CP Customer

A charming film about a now British subject returning to his birth home and the experiences he has meeting people who knew him and his family and hook ups he had made prior to his journey.  Very watchable film and the story flows a steady pace and gives an insight into the experience of a person returning to their birth place many years later!

Tedious - Monsoon review by JW

I found this hard to get into. Lots of inaction.

I found it boring tbh.

I found it very hard to get to the end.

Touching drama about reconnecting with your culture - Monsoon review by AER

So this British movie set in modern-day Vietnam was very good. Henry Golding plays a gay man who is transporting his mother's ashes back to Vietnam. He tries to reconnect with his past (he left when he was six years old) and also meets an American expatriate with his own connections to the country. This was a very thoughtful film about understanding where you come from and where you need to go. Some scenes are very moving and you warm to the lonely lead character quickly, whose initial reticence can actually be read as something altogether different by the end of its slender running time - 75 minutes. Both Hanoi and Saigon appear in this road movie, as does much of this ever-changing country. Recommended for those who like character dramas and road movies.