Page 2 - Vertical Ray News Today

The Vertical Ray of Sun is beautiful, languorous, passive--it plays like background music for itself. Filmed in a Hanoi that looks more like an Asian love hotel than a city, its a lush, sensuous work--the film equivalent of those old Mantovani albums with names like Music for Lovers Only. It tells the stories of three sisters, two married, one single, and although it contains adulteries in the present, rumors of adultery in the past, one or perhaps two pregnancies and a hint of incestuous feeli...