Vinyan

Vinyan
Vinyan
	Theatrical poster
Directed by	Fabrice du Welz
Written by	Fabrice du Welz; Oliver Blackburn; David Greig;
Produced by	Cédric Jimenez; ; Adrian Politowski;
Starring	Emmanuelle Béart; Rufus Sewell; Julie Dreyfus;
Cinematography	Benoît Debie
Edited by
Music by	François-Eudes Chanfrault
Production; company	The Film
Distributed by	Wild Bunch Distribution (France); Sony Pictures Releasing (United States);
Release dates	1 October 2008 (France); 7 April 2009 (United States);
Running time	96 minutes
Countries	France; Belgium; United Kingdom; Australia;
Language	English

Vinyan is a 2008 British-French-Belgian-Australian drama horror film directed and co-written by Fabrice du Welz and starring Emmanuelle Béart, 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 Béart as Jeanne Bellmer
Rufus Sewell as Paul Bellmer
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.

External links[]

Official website (in French)^{[dead link]}
- Press Kit
Vinyan at IMDb
Vinyan at Rotten Tomatoes
Vinyan at AllMovie

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