Cyclo (1995)

Original title

Xích lô

Directed by

Trần Anh Hùng

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

Vietnam, France

Runtime

2h 03m

Rated

R

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 122 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Set in 1990s Ho Chi Minh City, a young cyclo driver struggles to survive after his vehicle is stolen. He gets drawn into a violent criminal underworld run by a mysterious poet-gangster.

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What happens

Cyclo (Vietnamese: Xích Lô [sɨt̚˦˥ lo˧˧]) is a 1995 film by Tran Anh Hung. It stars Lê Văn Lộc, Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Trần Nữ Yên Khê. The film depicts the difficult lives of the labor force in early 1990s Ho Chi Minh City, and how people fall under the influence of crime. The film is considered hard to understand because of abstract and wordless communication. However, in a review, Janet Maslin asserted that this style, which is typical of the director, made the movie more memorable and successful. The film won the Golden Lion at the 52nd Venice International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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