Director Pawo Choyning Dorji interview: On Bhutanese modernity and echoes of Edward Yang in ‘The Monk and the Gun’
There’s a poster of A Brighter Summer Day hanging in Pawo Choyning Dorji’s home. It’s a tribute to the late Edward Yang, but also something far more personal. “The little girl in the film,” he tells me, “Chang Chen’s little sister… that little girl is my wife.” There’s something almost sacred in the intimacy of…