Film screening «Tái sinh» (En Corps)

   A ballet dancer at the top of her career loses everything to one injury and has to learn how to live inside her own body again. This two-hour French film tells that story through absorbing contemporary dance, right in the middle of Saigon.

   It is directed by Cédric Klapisch and stars Marion Barbeau, Pio Marmaï, François Civil and Denis Podalydès, and it belongs to the French film programme presented by the Institut français du Vietnam. Élise has to give up her ballet career after a serious injury; from Paris to Brittany she looks for a new meaning through fresh encounters and through contemporary dance.

   What the session gives you:
Genre: comedy-drama, running time 2 hours
Audio in French, subtitles in Vietnamese and English
Venue: the DCiné screening room on Mạc Đĩnh Chi

   The film is for people who love dance and the stage, for anyone who has had to start over after a rupture, and for viewers who enjoy French drama built around sharply drawn characters. Marion Barbeau is a professional dancer, so the dance sequences are filmed whole rather than stitched together.

   DCiné sits in the central district, a few minutes by car from Bến Thành market, so the screening slots easily into an evening out in town.

   Ticket prices and booking arrangements were not published alongside the schedule, so it is worth asking the cinema directly before you set off.

   Pick a session, settle in, and let a story about getting back up carry you for two hours.