Regret to Inform
MovieTitle | Regret to Inform |
User score | 7.8 |
Release date | Jan 1, 1999 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Barbara Sonneborn |
Production country | United States of America |
Run time | 72 min. |
In this film made over ten years, filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn goes on a pilgrimage to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband was killed. She and translator (and fellow war widow) Xuan Ngoc Nguyen explore the meaning of war and loss on a human level. The film weaves interviews with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid testament to the legacy of war.