Vietnam Week Film Screening: Three Seasons

Three Seasons

New 4K Restoration

In Person: Tony Bui, director

Lost in a vault for nearly twenty-five years and now gloriously restored in all its ravishing beauty, Tony Bui’s debut feature was the first American film made in Vietnam after the lifting of the US embargo. It shows a rapidly changing society in which four characters struggle to find themselves: a cyclo driver (Đơn Dương), who forms a relationship with a sex worker (Zoe Bui) whom he ferries to her clients, an American veteran (Harvey Keitel) in search of the daughter he fathered during the Vietnam War, a street kid (Nguyễn Hữu Được) who becomes his friend, and a flower vendor (Ngọc Hiệp) who finds solace in the beauty of lotus blossoms. Blending the beauty of traditional Vietnamese architecture and landscape with relentless modernization then sweeping through Saigon, it captures a unique, pivotal, and now long lost moment in modern Vietnamese history. (Dir.: Tony Bui, Vietnam/United States, 1999, 109 min., DCP, English and Vietnamese with English subtitles)

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