100 Ngày Bên Em

I liked this film a lot and thought it was really well done. My understanding is it is a Vietnamese remake of the 2012 Korean film "Never Ending Story." I haven't seen the Korean film yet, so I can't say how this measures up to it, but this film stands alone just fine.

It deals with a common scenario in such movies, and it takes its own direction. The scenario is a sad one, and different films approach it in different ways. This one did not go the route of "so sad, we're going to break you down with it"...but it still got the point across and added real sympathy for the characters and an appreciation of their plight.

Rather, it didn't completely focus on certain painful details and added some comedy in with the drama to give it a satisfactory "balance." I am a fan of the deeply somber approaches of some films of this genre, but if every movie dealt with such a scenario in the same way, we would only need one. So I can appreciate a film like this one right along with those.

The lead actress was stunningly pretty, had good chemistry with the male lead, and the rest of the cast played their roles just right. Vietnam puts out many outstanding films, and I count this as one of them.