ArticleAuthors: Mai, Anh Tuấn (2023)
This paper analyzes "Ben khong chong" film ("Wharf of Widows", 2000, Director.
Luu Trong Ninh) in terms of mise-en-shot and mise-en-scene, to affirm that the film is the most significant model of Vietnamese cinema in selecting, recreating and formalizing the geographical, natural and daily life of the Northern countryside. Along with re-considering films that has many commons as Ben khong chong, the paper aims to assert that the clear appearance of the Northern village landscape in Vietnamese cinema since the mid-1990s has been in the trend of exploiting, reusing and creating the country's cultural features, elements and indigenous stories. Additionally, it has shown a remarkable rise in the sense of nostalgia for the countryside in the context of socio-economic changes and global ... 
