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courtesy Chrysalis Film LLC Kieu Chinh has spent 68 years as an actor, and most of those years carried her further from the country where she began, through Hollywood, through “The Joy Luck Club,” through “The Sympathizer,” through a career built largely outside the borders of the country that shaped her.
This week, that arc bends back. “Chrysalis,” adapted from the memoir of Vietnamese-American artist Sir Daniel K. Winn and starring Kieu Chinh as his grandmother in 1972 Saigon, competes in the official selection of the Danang Asian Film Festival, marking the actor’s first time returning to Vietnamese soil in competition with a film of her own.
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