Three Seasons (UK) ( 3 Seasons )

Three Seasons (UK) (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: 3 Seasons
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Stockholm Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Vietnamese ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
104 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1999 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )
Vietnam ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Tony Bui

Written By:
Timothy Linh Bui
Tony Bui

Actors:
Ngoc Hiep Nguyen ..... Kien An
Ngoc Minh ..... Truck Driver
Phat Trieu Hoang ..... Huy, Dao's Headman
Diem Kieu ..... Singing Lotus Woman
Hanh Kieu ..... Giang
Don Duong ..... Hai, Cyclo Driver
Huu Duoc Nguyen ..... Woody, Child Street Peddler
Hong Son Le ..... Binh, Cyclo Driver
Ba Quang Nguyen ..... Don, Cyclo Driver
Huu Su Tran ..... Ngon, Cyclo Driver
Duc Hung Luong ..... Minh, Cyclo Driver
Harvey Keitel ..... James Hager
Diep Bui ..... Lan the Hooker (as Zoe Bui)
Hoang Trieu ..... Man Who Chases Lan #1
Tran Long ..... Man Who Chases Lan #2

Synopsis:

Winner of an unprecedented three major awards at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival (including the Grand Jury, Audience and Cinematography awards), this first feature by 26-year-old Tony Bui is a poetic narrative about the "new" Vietnam, and is the first American independent film to be shot on location in that country. The film weaves three separate stories about four characters in Saigon and how their paths cross. In the first, a young Vietnamese woman is working for a reclusive writer who has lost his fingers to leprosy. As she sings, her master becomes infatuated with her and finds inspiration in her music, just as she finds inspiration in his words. Their union in one of song, love, friendship and aid. Second is Hai, a cyclo driver who falls for a young prostitute with high ambitions. After saving her from a few hostile clients, she lets him drive her around. Eventually Hai enters a cyclo race in hopes of winning enough money to spend one night with his beloved. Finally, a young boy named Woody sells gum, watches and lighters to passers-by in the streets. In a bar he meets an American soldier (played by Harvey Keitel) who is searching for his missing daughter. When Woody suspects the G.I. of stealing his suitcase, he goes looking. What he finds is best left unanswered.

A young boy peddles trinkets at tourist traps like the Apocalypse Now Bar, where he meets an ex-GI (Harvey Keitel) searching for the daughter he left behind in the war. A cyclo driver falls in love with a proud young prostitute who dreams of escaping her impoverished life. A woman hired to pick white lotuses becomes the salvation of a dying poet.
The sublime Three Seasons is the first film to win both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 07 May, 2010.