Daughter from Danang is an excellent documentary which is the cinematic equivalent of "found art." The filmmakers set out to make a heartwarming story of a woman making her first trip back to Vietnam to meet her birth mother, who gave her up at age seven or so. She was adopted by an American Southern woman and became thoroughly Americanized with big hair, Southern accent, and all. Now she's thirtysomething and ready to come together with her birth family, but the reunion has repercussions that no one could have foreseen. It's memorable and completely unexpected by the filmmakers as well as everyone else. This movie is undergoing severely limited release, but even if it doesn't get a huge theatrical release, it will sooner or later pop up on television and should be seen by all means. It's a killer doc.
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