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‘Three Seasons”
showing Nov. 26
BY ROSIE DAY
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
Kevin Thomas, Film Critic for the Los Angeles Times says that “ ‘Three Seasons’ is the gentlest most exquisitely beautiful of filmB, set in a place that has experienced one of the bitterest struggles in modem times.” The place is Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon.
Tony Bui, a 26-year-old filmmaker in his first film, returns to the land of his birth to tell three loosely linked’ short stories. All the stories reach their own moment of truth only to give way to a larger truth: that Ho Chi Minh City, and by extension, Vietnam, is in a time of wrenching change, with the charming old French colonial city being erased by a modem metropolis of skyscrapers, luxury hotels and miles of neon.
In one of Bui’s stories, James Hager played by Harvey Keitel, is an anguished Vietnam veteran searching for the grown daughter he has never met. We are also introduced to Kien An (Nguyen Ngoc Hiep), a pretty, deceptively demure young woman who has been hired to pick lotus flowers in a large pond dominated by an ancient temple and then sell the flowers in city streets. _
In time Kien An sells flowers to Hai (Don Duong), a cyclo driver and James Hager and the story of these people begin to intertwine. “Three Season^,” a movie for any and all seasons, gazefi^ with a sense of beauty and compassion; at hard realities while immersing us in the stunning visual images of thijs noisjr, V sultry city. ^
“Three Seasons” is sponsored t>y £ RAAC and will shown at'The Theatre on Gay-Street at 8 p in. on Nov. 26. The film is dubbed -in finglish. (Rated PG-13, Running time, 114 minutes)
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