Vinyan

Vinyan
Theatrical Poster
Directed by Fabrice du Welz
Produced by
Written by
Starring
Music by François-Eudes Chanfrault
Cinematography Benoît Debie
Edited by Colin Monie
Production
company
Distributed by
Release date
  • 1 October 2008 (2008-10-01) (France)
  • 7 April 2009 (2009-04-07) (United States)
Running time
 96 minutes
Country
Language English

Vinyan is a 2008 British-French-Belgian-Australian drama film with horror themes directed and co-written by Fabrice du Welz. The film was du Welz's second as a director. 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 Thakin 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 Thakin 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

Release

The film first appeared in North America at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it premiered on 5 September 2008.


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