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Duval says the drama about a Canadian woman who travels to Vietnam to visit the birthplace of her adopted daughter touched on his own family’s story.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Alex Ritman sat down with director Jean-Philippe Duval to discuss his film
14 Days, 12 Nights in a
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During the half-hour chat, Duval described why the film Canada’s entry for the 2021 Academy Awards international feature film category touched on subjects that were closer to home than anything he had worked on previously.
14 Days, 12 Nights follows Isabelle (Anne Dorval), a grief-stricken Canadian woman who journeys to Vietnam to visit the birthplace of her adopted daughter following a terrible accident. Touching on themes such as culture, mourning, friendship and forgiveness, the story sees Isabelle eventually meet her daughter’s birth mother, Thuy Nguyen (Leanna Chea), in Hanoi, and the two embark on a road trip to some of the country�