Miu Lê
My
Overview
The story revolves around a babysitter named 'My' coming to work for a rich young family. As bonds start to form, and trusts built, 'My' begins to face everyone’s deep dark secrets.
Cast
Reviews
4 min readThe Gilded Cage of Revenge
I kept waiting for Black Rose to sharpen its teeth. The opening twenty minutes are a masterclass in slow-burn dread—soft piano over wide shots of a Hanoi mansion so pristine it feels like a museum, not a home. The camera lingers on the babysitter My’s face as she steps across the threshold, her smile too tight, her eyes flicking to the corners of the room like she’s counting exits.
(I’ve seen this trick before: the outsider in the gilded cage, the tension of class pressed into every frame. It’s Parasite meets Vietnamese nouveau riche, and for a moment, I thought I was in for something special.)
Then the film remembers it’s a revenge thriller, not a psychological study, and the gears start grinding.
Thắng Vũ’s direction is all surface polish and no foundation. The radial wipes—those sudden, jarring transitions that slice the screen like a knife—should feel propulsive, but they arrive at random, as if the editor was bored and decided to spice things up. The score is worse.
One moment, it’s a whisper of strings; the next, it’s a synth-heavy crescendo that feels lifted from a 90s action flick, blaring over scenes that don’t need the help. It’s the audio equivalent of a jump scare: loud, obvious, and ultimately hollow.
The plot, such as it is, follows My as she insinuates herself into the lives of a wealthy family, only to uncover their dark secrets. The problem isn’t the premise—it’s the execution. The film’s first act promises a nuanced exploration of class and power, but by the second, it’s all backstabbing and betrayal, the kind of soapy twists that feel lifted from a telenovela.
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Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsKBS put money on a Vietnamese nanny. The teaser sold the affair first.
Black Rose is the English tag for Chiem Doat, Thang Vu's 2023 Vietnamese thriller about a babysitter named My who walks into a rich young household and starts collecting its secrets. Thanh Nien called it the first Vietnamese feature invested by KBS Media, produced through ERS Factory and released by CGV Vietnam. latestnetflix.com's view is that it screened at the Jeonju International Film Festival on 28 April 2023, then opened locally on 24 November.Netflix later listed it as Black Rose, with Ha hiring a caretaker and the family business taking the hit.,,
The pre-release gossip was all heat. In September 2023 the teaser put Miu Le in a three-way tease with Lanh Thanh and rapper Karik. Her line in the clip, as quoted by Thanh Nien, was "If you are doing something sneaky, who ever uses the front door?" Thang Vu said the wet teaser beat was captured in a single take. Another sex scene, cut with a plot secret, took more than ten takes because he wanted Miu Le and Lanh Thanh to crash into each other at full pitch. Miu Le was returning to a theatrical lead after four years away, last seen in Anh thay ngoi sao in 2019. The 18-plus rating did the rest of the talking.,
The household around her is a family company with too many heirs. Lanh Thanh plays Son, the husband. Phuong Anh Dao is Ha, the wife who hires My. Karik is Hoang, Son's friend. Miss Universe Vietnam winner Luong Thuy Linh plays Nhu, Son's sister. Singer Phuong Thanh is Son's mother. VN Express describes My as a new graduate who charms Ha, seduces Son, and uses Hoang as a piece on the board, then reveals she is wrecking the marriage over an old wound that wrecked her own family. That revenge shape is the rumor engine. A beautiful nanny, a baby, a restaurant fire in the backstory, and a marriage that was never as clean as the living room.,
Then the reviews landed, and they were not kind. VN Express flagged plot holes, a slow first half, a second half that swerves onto another character, and a romance with Hoang that feels bolted on. Box Office Vietnam, cited in that same piece, had the film at 5.5 billion dong after three days. Thang Vu told the paper his team weighed three endings, ran a survey, and picked the one that let the audience exhale. He had wanted something that matched the film's earlier tone, then decided it needed a gentler close. Forum chatter, as the review summarized it, called that twist a letdown.
What Netflix inherited is that argument, not a neon crime saga. Thang Vu's previous theatrical calling card was the music film Mua viet tinh ca. Tran Khanh Hoang, who wrote Em chua 18, is on the script with Korean names Kim Sang-woo and Choi Hyo-bi also credited on TMDB. That KBS footprint is the industry story. A Korean broadcaster's production arm putting cash into a Vietnamese 18-plus nanny thriller, a Jeonju bow, a teaser built on one-take sex, and a star who had been off the big screen long enough for the return to count as news. The English title Black Rose is a catalog rename. The movie Vietnamese audiences fought over is still Chiem Doat.,
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