2021 · drama · supernatural
Blue Bayou
Directed by Justin Chon1h 57m2021
As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.
Our read: Blue Bayou (2021) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / supernatural, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- measured
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