Three Seasons

Three Seasons

1999 · 105 min · EN · PG-13 · 7.2 (27 votes)
Dir. Tony Bui · Starring Đơn Dương, Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Hiệp, Diep Bui, Huu Duoc Nguyen, Diễm Kiều, Harvey Keitel · Music Richard Horowitz

The war is over. But a personal battle continues to rage.

Drama

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.

VIBE

A deeply humanistic and poetic look at life in Ho Chi Minh City. It feels like a gentle, melancholic poem, exploring love, loss, and resilience amidst poverty and the lingering shadows of war.

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