Three Seasons (1999)

Directed by Tony Bui

Starring Ngoc Hiep Nguyen, Diep Bui, Harvey Keitel

Gorgeous multi stranded storyline, an American searching for his Vietnamese daughter. A cyclo driver who falls in love with a prostitute, a young lotus picker who befriends her employer and a street rat who makes a living selling trinkets to tourists. The story sections which intersect and overlap each other are at times beautiful, the lotus pickers singing; exhilarating, the cyclo race; moving, the care and love shown to the prostitute and the lotus picker helping her employer and at times disturbing, the street kids having to fend for themselves. I wasnt too struck with the story of the American but it did help connect the strands together.

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full review from Howard Schumann

A mostly pleasurable look at contrasting faces of Vietnam and Saigon in particular, it may be a bit too sentimental for some but is definitely worth seeing. A good introduction to foreign films.

Cheers Trev 

BBFC rating 12a, suitable for most.