Vietnamese cinema offers fresh perspectives on wartime history

'Apocalypse Now' has drowned out vibrant domestic dramas and documentaries

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A still from the 1981 film "The Three Rose Plan," featuring sassy killers on scooters and ill-fated CIA advisers. (Screen grab from YouTube) 

MATTHEW SWEET, Contributing writer

In May 1979, director Francis Ford Coppola emerged from his yacht to issue a war bulletin. His audience was eager to hear him: It had just attended the Cannes festival screening of his Vietnam War movie "Apocalypse Now," and already knew some of the hair-raising behind-the-scenes stories.

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