Three Seasons
by Tony Bui
Vietnam, USA
Focus on vietnamese cinema
Script: Tony Bui
Cinematographer: Lisa Rinzler
Editor: Keith Reamer
Sound: Curtis Choy, Brian Miksis
Music: Richard Horowitz
Cast: Don Duong, Nguyen Ngoc Hiep, Tran Manh Cuong, Harvey Keitel, Zoë Bui, Nguyen Huu Duoc
Production: Open City Films, The Goatsingers
Distribution:
Mars Film
66 rue de Miromesnil
75008 Paris
France
Tel: 0033 1.56.43.67.20
Fax: 0033 1.45.61.45.04
Mail: [email protected]
Year: 1999
Screening: 2002
35 mm, Colour, 104 min
OV Vietnamese, English with French Subtitles
Grand Prize, Audience Award, Best Cinematography - Sundance Film Festival 1999
Times are changing in Vietnam and the ancestral culture is being replaced by a West-oriented modernity’s first steps.
In Saigon, the paths taken by five characters will cross. Master Dao, a former poet suffering from leprosy, employs Young Kien who collects white lotuses and sells them in town. Hai, a cylo driver, falls in love with Yan, a young prostitute working in the new posh hotels of the city. In order to spend a night with her, he accepts to run in a rickshaw race. Woody is a street child who tries to make a living from illicit trade of trinkets. In the bar called Apocalyse Now, he meets James Hager, a G.I. who came to Saigon to find the girl he met and later abandoned during the war.