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Vinyan Director: Fabrice Du Welz Cast: Emmanuelle Béart, Rufus Sewell, Julie Dreyfus, Petch Osathanugrah

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  • DVD Release Date: 04/07/2009
  • Original Release: 2008
  • Rating: Rated R
  • Sales Rank: 19,581

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Disc #1 -- Vinyan
1. Chapter 1 [3:56]
2. Chapter 2 [1:48]
3. Chapter 3 [4:03]
4. Chapter 4 [5:54]
5. Chapter 5 [3:51]
6. Chapter 6 [1:28]
7. Chapter 7 [1:46]
8. Chapter 8 [2:39]
9. Chapter 9 [3:05]
10. Chapter 10 [2:13]
11. Chapter 11 [4:19]
12. Chapter 12 [3:22]
13. Chapter 13 [1:36]
14. Chapter 14 [2:19]
15. Chapter 15 [3:14]
16. Chapter 16 [2:30]
17. Chapter 17 [3:43]
18. Chapter 18 [4:38]
19. Chapter 19 [2:36]
20. Chapter 20 [2:58]
21. Chapter 21 [2:55]
22. Chapter 22 [3:20]
23. Chapter 23 [2:54]
24. Chapter 24 [3:22]
25. Chapter 25 [3:36]
26. Chapter 26 [3:14]
27. Chapter 27 [4:28]
28. Chapter 28 [2:11]

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Parents looking for a missing child are led into a strange and dangerous netherworld in this thriller. Jeanne (Emmanuelle Beart) and Paul (Rufus Sewell) are a wealthy couple who were in Thailand helping to establish an orphanage when the 2005 tsunami leveled the island. Jeanne and Paul had a young son who disappeared in the storm, and since his body has never been found, Jeanne holds out hope that he might still be alive, a hope that becomes a desperate concern when she sees a video of children being held by kidnappers in Burma which shows a child who looks like her boy. Eager to find out the truth, Paul pays a hefty fee to local outlaw Mr. Gao (Petch Osathanugrah) to escort him and Jeanne into a forbidden zone known only to Thailand's criminal underclass near the Burmese border. Jeanne and Paul soon find themselves out of their depth in a strange land they do not understand where dangerous men commune with the spirits of the dead. The first English language project from writer and director Fabrice du Welz, Vinyan was an official selection at the 2008 Venice Film Festival. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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A One Note Song of Self Indulgenceby gradyharp

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April 12, 2009: VINYAN (apparently meaning 'drifting souls') is a film that calls for stamina and courage just to sit through it. The story is so meager, related by an ill-composed, repetitive script (Oliver Blackburn and director Fabrice Du Welz), that the only reason to not turn off the DVD after the first 10 minutes is the hope that the fine actors Emmanuelle Béart and Rufus Sewell might make something of the simplistic idea. They don't.

A couple (Béart and Sewell) lives in Thailand recovering from the loss of their only son Joshua in a tsunami. A video observed at a fundraiser seems to show (at least in the mother's mind) the presence of a still alive Joshua in a jungle in Burma. From that point the sole line of the story is the misfortunes the couple endure on a scam riddled journey to Burma to find their son. The ending involves a mountain of special effects and dreary children in silly makeup who supposedly represent the 'vinyan' of the title. The ending is one of gore and titillation in very bad taste. This movie is one to 'pass' when selecting DVDs form the local shelves. Grady Harp