Do Thi Hai Yen returns to cinema after 10 years not to prove anything

Do Thi Hai Yen impressed with her noble beauty and delicate acting in Quan Ky Nam - Photo: Producer

In Ky Nam Restaurant, Do Thi Hai Yen continues to affirm the depth of acting, is a sweet return to cinema. The role of Ky Nam is profound and challenging, is the soul of the film.

The film was shot entirely on 35mm film, set in Ho Chi Minh City in the 1980s.

Ky Nam, a role full of thoughts

In the context of that apartment building, the central character is Ky Nam, a widowed woman, making a living in an old apartment building. Her quiet life changes when Khang (Lien Binh Phat), a young translator, moves into this apartment building.

A subtle bond gradually formed between the two: not just friendship, but also a deep empathy that came from understanding and feeling life and culture.

Ky Nam is a role that contains many thoughts of Do Thi Hai Yen - Photo: Producer

The character suffers a lot of trauma, has a difficult situation and carries the great loss of a mother and wife. Ky Nam lives in an old apartment building, making a living by cooking monthly meals for the surrounding households.

With an intellectual background, a love of reading and music, Ky Nam's image attracts viewers from the very first seconds with his luxurious beauty, deep gaze and elegant, refined demeanor - a completely different temperament from the people around him.

To "live" with Ky Nam, Do Thi Hai Yen learned vocal training and adjusted her clear, high voice to become calm and experienced. "Ky Nam is a truly traditional woman. Even when cooking, Ky Nam has to arrange the food very carefully, everything on the table is like a painting" - she said.

Do Thi Hai Yen: 'I did not come back to prove anything'

Because the film has little dialogue, the eyes are the means for Ky Nam to express his inner feelings, affirming Do Thi Hai Yen's delicate acting ability. As soon as he reached the "threshold" of emotional explosion, Ky Nam cried with red eyes and a look that fully reflected chaos and collapse.

Do Thi Hai Yen through the lens of photographer Louis Wu

Do Thi Hai Yen shared: "I just hope that I can always keep the most honest emotions when working. I returned to cinema not to prove anything, but for the roles that I truly believe in, love and want to live with.

If the audience watches the movie and believes in the character, in what the character has gone through, that is an extremely precious reward."

When working, I always think of myself as walking on a tightrope, not allowing myself to "deviate" from that tightrope. Everything must be something that cannot be expressed in words, must come from expressions or body language, from the eyes.

Ky Nam Restaurant is an emotional journey for Do Thi Hai Yen. This role is not a noisy comeback or a comeback to attract attention. For the actress, Ky Nam Restaurant like a "return" - a return to the most genuine emotions that cinema brings, a return to the artistic dream that the actress always holds in special respect.

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