"The Beautiful Country": a scene without a soul Sep 7, 2005
The Beautiful Country ... The Beautiful Country is one of those bad films that is bad at everything ... Nothing would be lost by shooting The Beautiful Country as a silent film, muting it all, but I doubt it would be improved. (Washington University Student Life, MO)
Gorgeous geography: Though slow moving, 'The Beautiful Country' is worth the wait Sep 1, 2005
"The Beautiful Country" ... "The Beautiful Country" is a simple story simply told ... "The Beautiful Country" does drag a bit. (Daily Utah Chronicle, UT)
Film reviews in brief: 'The Beautiful Country,' 'Eros' Aug 19, 2005
Film reviews in brief: 'The Beautiful Country,' 'Eros ... Film reviews in brief: 'The Beautiful Country,' 'Eros ... The Beautiful Country. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Beautiful Country traces an amazing journey Aug 6, 2005
WHAT: The Beautiful Country ... "The Beautiful Country" begins in a remote, forgotten corner of Vietnam and ends in a remote, forgotten corner of Texas. (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Shortcomings in the 'Country' (Gary Arnold) Aug 5, 2005
"The Beautiful Country" is a saga of exile, preoccupied with the plight of a young man without a country ... TITLE: "The Beautiful Country" RATING: R (Occasional profanity, graphic violence and sexual candor, principally allusions to prostitution) CREDITS:Directed by Hans Petter Moland. (Washington Times)
'The Beautiful Country' Aug 5, 2005
PACKETONLINE News Classifieds Entertainment Business - Princeton and Central New Jersey - Entertainment - 08/05/2005 - 'The Beautiful Country ... The Beautiful Country ... Ling Bai (above) and Tim Roth (below) star in The Beautiful Country. (Windsor-Hights Herald, NJ)
Epic offers a moving experience Jul 15, 2005
The Beautiful Country," an ambitious international epic of displacement and refugee yearning, presents us with a young man who is less than dust at the start but who slowly grows in stature. By the final scenes, he's a hero more real and more touching than any you may encounter at the movies this year -- big enough to just overcome the slickness of the film that surrounds him.His name is Binh, and as played by newcomer Damien Nguyen in a performance of immense and quiet power, he's a nonentity... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Vietnam-to-Texas refugee weepie offers earnest simplicity Jul 10, 2005
The Beautiful Country ... The Beautiful Country Directed by Hans Petter Moland Sony Pictures Classics, opens July 8 ... Michael Winterbottom's semi-doc In This World applied a cool, unmanipulative verit to the dynamic; relatively, Hans Petter Moland's The Beautiful Country is the well-meaning Roland Joffe take, plot-heavy, simplistic, and telegraphic. (Village Voice)
Crossing a sea of adversity to find his father Jul 10, 2005
More than anyone can imagine in ''The Beautiful Country," a wrenching new movie opening Friday that depicts the grueling odyssey of 20-year-old Binh to find his father, the American soldier his Vietnamese mother married during the war.''Binh is a silent hero," says Damien Nguyen (pronounced ''win"), who plays him. ''It's all because of this photo [of his mother, father, and himself as a baby] that he holds close to him. It brings him hope. And hope affords him strength to get through anything... (Boston Globe)
What's new in entertainment Jul 9, 2005
"THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY" Binh (Damien Nguyen) is a young Vietnamese man whose father was American, which makes him "bui doi" - "less than dust" - in the eyes of his foster family ... What the critics say: "The details are surprisingly fresh, and the characters are vividly drawn." -Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter "Despite its length and measured pace, 'The Beautiful Country' moves briskly and remains an absorbing narrative from start to finish." -David Germain, The Associated Press. (Fresno Bee)
'Beautiful': Intimate journey Jul 8, 2005
Beautiful': Intimate journeyBy Claudia Puig, USA TODAY The Beautiful Country is a poignant, if occasionally ponderous, odyssey of a young Vietnamese man's quest to find his GI father. Damien Nguyen, Chau Thi Kim Xuan and Bai Ling turn in admirable performances in The Beautiful Country ... The Beautiful Country * * * (out of four) Stars: Damien Nguyen, Nick Nolte, Bai Ling, Tim Roth Director: Hans Petter Moland Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics Running time: 2 hours Rated: R for some language... (USA Today -- Movies)
Beautiful Country tells a moving story Jul 6, 2005
Nick Nolte and Damien Nguyen star in "The Beautiful Country." ... Ambitious, lyrical and sweetly sad in its underlying optimism in the face of bitter hardship, The Beautiful Country is a true hands-across-the-water effort, both with its cast and crew and with its far-ranging scope ... His journey unfolds slowly and deliberately, yet despite its length and measured pace, The Beautiful Country moves briskly and remains an absorbing narrative from start to finish. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Osians-Cinefan is now worlds largest fest of Asian Cinema Jul 4, 2005
The selection this year has films like 'The Beautiful Country' by Hans Petter Moland of Norway, 'Beyond Honour' by Varun Khanna and 'House of Sand and Fog' by Vadim Perelman from the United States, 'The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan' by Phil Grabsky and Yasmin by Kenny Glenaan from the United Kingdom, 'Paradise Girls' by Fow Pyung Hu and 'Shouf Shouf Habibi. by Albert Heerdt from the Netherlands. (Hindu)
