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Wikipedia article
'Vinyan' is a 2008 British-French-Belgian-Australian dramahorror film directed and co-written by Fabrice du Welz and starring Emmanuelle Bart, Rufus Sewell, and Julie Dreyfus. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival on 30 August 2008.
Reviews towards the film were slightly positive, receiving an aggregated score of 56% from Rotten Tomatoes.
Plot
Jeanne and Paul are a wealthy couple who lost their son, Joshua, in the Boxing Day Christmas tsunami of 2004. Six months later, having stayed over in Thailand, they view a film at an orphanage fund-raiser made by Kimberly Park,
just back from the Andaman Coast, of Moken and Salone natives in the South Tanintharyi division. A restricted area only accessible by boats through a triad of Thaksin Gao who has military ties that smuggles girls to bars in Myanmar. Jeanne sees a vague figure in the distance she believes to be Josh. Discouraged by Jeanne's lead, Paul gives in to contacting the triad's leader Thaksin Gao and hiring one of his boats for an exorbitant 'one-time' fee. At first taken to a false decoy in the Mergui Archipelago where male orphans, the females not present, cast balloons at night to ward of the vinyan spirits, the French couple is further misled, as indicated by pointing on a map, to an uninhabited island south of Macleod Island (west of Zadetkale Island) where, their resources depleted, find themselves equally lost in a region of lost male orphans.
Cast
* Emmanuelle Bart as Jeanne Bellmer
* Rufus Sewell as Paul Bellmer
* Petch Osathanugrah as Thaksin Gao
* Julie Dreyfus as Kim
Release
The film first appeared in North America at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it premiered on 5 September 2008.
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