Berlinale Encounters: An exciting new cinematic voice from Vietnam: About Le Baos movie VI/TASTE.

VI/TASTE by LE BAO. — We are in gloomy, bare corrugated iron huts in Saigon, Vietnam. Hardly any sunlight penetrates in, everything is sparse, barely furnished, the press release speaks of the “slums” of Ho Chi Minh City, as Saigon has been officially called since reunification in 1976. I don’t know whether the Vietnamese officials…