{"id":25962,"date":"2015-04-03T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T07:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dvan.org\/?p=25962"},"modified":"2018-10-14T21:58:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T04:58:42","slug":"ham-trans-how-to-fight-in-six-inch-heels-now-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvan.org\/2015\/04\/ham-trans-how-to-fight-in-six-inch-heels-now-playing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ham Tran’s “How to Fight In Six Inch Heels” Now Playing!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hit movie “How To Fight in Six Inch Heels” arrives in the US! Jade Hidle tells us about it. Go see this movie!<\/em><\/p>\n

If you are, like me, tired of the slew of post-Oscar season box office duds, don\u2019t worry. You now have a reason to return to the theater. Ham Tran, director of the acclaimed 2007 film Journey from the Fall<\/em> and editor of\u00a0\u0110\u1ec3 Mai T\u00ednh<\/em>, which diacritics reviewed in 2010<\/a>, has released a new feature-length film, How to Fight in Six Inch Heels<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The film traces the movement familiar to many diasporic Vietnamese today\u2014the journey of returning to Viet Nam for work, for rediscovery, and, in this case, for love. In the film, Anne, played by superstar Kathy Uyen, comically struggles to maintain a long-distance relationship with her fianc\u00e9, Kiet, who is working in the Saigon fashion industry. Anne is propelled back to Viet Nam out of the jealous suspicion that Kiet is cheating on her with a supermodel. Anne, a fashion designer herself, plots to infiltrate Saigon\u2019s high-fashion spheres, only to find herself befriending supermodels and learning more than just the infidelity she expected to find.<\/p>\n

As the trailer reveals, How to Fight in Six Inch Heels <\/em>shows a side of contemporary Viet Nam that typically does not get represented in the media.<\/p>\n