Winner of the Sundance Jury Prize and Audience Award, writer/director Tony Bui's debut is also the first American movie filmed in Vietman with Vietnamese actors. Who can fault him for exoticizing the country he left as a young boy when his film offers
such luminous evidence that it's a stunning and heterogeneous place, ripe with thousands of compelling stories? But sometimes Bui's own film feels like the hothouse product he implicitly criticizes when he compares natural lotus flowers and the plastic imitations people seem to prefer. The four
stories Bui tangentially (and perhaps a bit whimsically) interrelates are set mostly in dusty Saigon, where there's scant evi...
Released:
1999
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
110 mins