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BUFFALO BOY
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A luminous coming-of-age story set in the Mekong Delta of the 1930s,             Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo's festival award-winning drama is based on a cycle of      short stories by Nam Son. The film follows a teenager (Le The Lu) as he joins    a band of nomadic buffalo herders and gets introduced to a world of crime,     violence, and romance. The youngster's adventures are set against the achingly beautiful backdrop of mid-century Vietnam, with its rolling landscapes and     lush, exhilarating colors. "The world in Buffalo Boy is filled with        wonder, but it is a world also filled with real desire, real death, not        abstractions" (Manohla Dargis, The New York Times). In Vietnamese with   Nghiem-Ming Nguyen-Vo---Vietnam/Belgium/France---2004---96 mins.
CYCLO
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Directed by Tran Anh Hung (The Scent of Green Papaya), this gritty tale of innocence lost in the urban jungle of Vietnam fuses the neorealist style of   The Bicycle Thief with the kinetic energy of Taxi Driver. In the heart of Ho Chi Minh City, a young cyclo (pedicab driver) transports passengers through the streets, trying to eke out a meager living for his two  sisters and elderly grandfather. When his bicycle is stolen by a local gang, he descends into a crime ring led by the charismatic Poet (Tony Leung, Chung King Express, Happy Together), and his older sister turns to prostitution. In Vietnamese with English subtitles.   Tran Anh Hung---Vietnam---1996---123 mins.
OWL AND THE SPARROW
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"Stephane Gauger's lovely debut...tracks a week in the separate lives of three young Vietnamese people...As expected, the characters cross paths amid the hustle and bustle of Saigon's eight million residents, but Gauger forgoes the usual convoluted narrative coincidences in order to craft a refreshingly simple look at loneliness and tentative connection" (The Village Voice).