The Tailor

The Tailor (2017)

Cô Ba Sài Gòn

The re-enactment of the long dress (ao dai) era in 1960s, Saogon, thought to be the heyday of traditional Vietnamese costumes. Interwoven into that transformation in fashion and style of the ao dai in modern times told through the story of the character of Ba. Audiences will also see somewhere the image of the 60s, 70s full of honest women. An image of Saigon in the past, gentle and steeped in contrast to the rush of a dynamic city will be described by fashion, namely long dress - traditional costumes in Vietnam. All of them are cleverly nested in the story between two families, between mothers and their children, between a tailor and a fabric shop filled with dramatic rage.

Date of release
2017-11-10
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Drama
Director
Kay Nguyễn

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

The Tailor is a 2017 Vietnamese 35mm drama film directed by Trần Bửu Lộc and Nguyễn Lê Phương Khanh. It is loosely based on a script by A Type Machine, and starrs Ninh Dương Lan Ngọc, Hong Van, Diem My, Ngo Thanh Van, Diem My 9x, S.T, Oanh Kieu, Tung Leo, Kaylee, Hai Trieu, Thanh Tu and Thuy Vy. The theme of the movie is to embrace the beauty of Ao Dai, a traditional costume of Viet Nam

Production

The foundation for the movie was from a conversation between Ngo Thanh Van and fashion designer Thuy Nguyen, as both wanted to make movie about Vietnamese women. Especially, Ngo Thanh Van owns an admiration toward ao dai in general. In Lunar New Year 2017, there were many discussions leading Ngo Thanh Van come to realize that "the young generation don't know much about ao dai and their interest for ao dai becomes less".

In order to portray character Nhu Y, actress Ninh Duong Lan Ngoc shared that she'd had to research and practice speaking and behaving like a 1960s girl and also study some French.

The costume was specially designed by fashion designer Thuy Nguyen. She shared that "my idea for ao dai in the movie, especially the familiar tile details was inspired from Saigon itself and my lovely old house", as "a longing for The Pearl of The East in 60s with a fresh and delicate spirit". Beside ao dai, the movie also mentioned popular Western style in the 1960s such as A-line skirt, pencil skirt and straight skirt.

In the explanation for the title (Vietnamese title: Co Ba Sai Gon), Ngo Thanh Van stated that the term "Co Ba" is used to remind the image of Southern women back in the day, not an actual name and confirmed that she'd registered trademark for this name in order not to be confused with other cosmetic or cuisine brand names.

The main soundtrack with same title as the movie is presented by Dong Nhi, composed and written by Only C, Nguyễn Phúc Thiện and Lou Hoàng, produced by Only C – which he described as "typical pop song, catchy tune but the lyric has a lot to say", with an encouraging message "which makes everyone fall in love with ao dai even more".

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