1999 · drama · vietnamese
Three Seasons
Directed by Tony Bui1h 45m1999
The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Elsewhere, a cyclo driver falls for a troubled prostitute and schemes to raise money so he can spend time with her. Additionally, a young women begins harvesting lotuses for a writer suffering from leprosy, and a child trinket seller loses his traveling case.
Our read: Three Seasons (1999) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · vietnamese entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle drama / vietnamese, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
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