WATCH: Two miners’ underground romance is already causing controversy in this seductive drama

Image Credit: ‘Viet & Nam,’ Strand Releasing

At the end of last year, iconic filmmaker John Waters raised some eyebrows—as he so often does—with a list of his favorite films from 2024, which included the likes of Queer, Love Lies Bleeding, and even Joker: Folie à Deux.

But it was the final movie on his list that proved most intriguing, Viet & Nam, which at that point only a handful of lucky film festival audiences had had a chance to see. Waters hailed it as a “beaut,” and an “eerie, surprisingly haunting drama,” but also was sure to note it featured, “two young gay coal miners, one of whom licks [REDACTED] off his partner’s stomach and the other eats wax from his lover’s ears.”

Um… so,

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