home alone
MONSOON 12A
FILM
OUT 25 SEPTEMBER CINEMAS, DIGITAL HD
Hong Khaou’s follow-up to 2014’s Bafta-nominated Lilting is inspired by the writer-director’s own life. Like Henry Golding’s (Crazy Rich Asians) unassuming protagonist Kit, Khaou fled his birth country, Cambodia, at a young age with his parents. With only faint memories of their old homeland, he didn’t visit it again until recently.
In this not-really-an-autobiography, Kit, born in Vietnam but living in the UK most of his life, finds himself in Ho Chi Minh City for the first time since childhood, trying to reconnect with past acquaintances, and grasping, often in vain, for a sense of any familiarity.
