Script : Justin Chon
Photographer : Ante Cheng, Matthew Chuang
Editing : Reynolds Barney
Setting : Bo Koung Shin
Music : Roger Suen
Actors : Justin Chon, Alicia Vikander, Mark O’Brien, Linh-Dan Pham, Sydney Kowalske
Production : Macro Entertainment
Distributeur :
Universal Pictures
21 rue François
1er 75 008 Paris
tél : 01 40 69 66 56
[email protected]
Year : 2021
Screening : 2023
DCP, Couleur, 120 mn, OV english FRSUB
Selected and awarded in many festivals
Antonio LeBlanc is always being asked where he comes from. Born in Korea, he was adopted by American parents when he was three years old. In spite of a difficult childhood, he felt at home in the United States. Today he lives in the state of Louisiana with his wife, Kathy and his step-daughter, Jessie. The three of them live a simple albeit happy life. Until the day he finds himself facing a hostile police officer in a supermarket. Antonio is arrested and threatened with expulsion back to his home country which he does not know. Legally, he is not an American citizen and, what’s more, he has a police record. The director, Justin Chon, acts with Alicia Vikander in this deeply moving melo- drama.
“As a child, in Los Angeles, I used to hang around with loads of kids who came from Korea and had been adopted, and I always felt there was a huge difference between their path of life and mine, I who was born here. It’s something which is essentially American and yet it’s never shown in films”. Justin Chon
