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Buffalo Boy
Global Film Initiative
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Le The Lu,
Nguyen Thi Kieu Trinh,
Nguyen Huu Thanh,
Kra Zan Sram,
Truong Van Be,
Nguyen Anh Hoa,
Thi Tham,
and
Vo Hoang Nhan
Set in southern Vietnam, this powerful coming-of-age tale is a richly textured reflection on the rhythms of daily life. The flooded landscape serves as backdrop for the mythic story of a relationship between a father and son, the cycles of life, and the inescapable flow of all things. (MOMA)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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Foreign
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Minh Nguyen-Vo
Nam Son (short story collection Scent of the Ca Mau Forest)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Minh Nguyen-Vo
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: March 11, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
102 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Vietnam / Belgium / France |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Vietnamese (with English subtitles) |
Original title "Mua len trau"

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The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
One of the strengths of Mr. Nguyen-Vo's film is that despite the overwhelming physical beauty of the landscape and the simplicity of his characters, he doesn't succumb to such aerated thinking. The world in Buffalo Boy" is filled with wonder, but it is a world also filled with real desire, real death, not abstractions.

70
Variety
Derek Elley
Sports a stronger narrative spine than is usual in Vietnamese rural dramas and a less fragile tone in its deployment of landscape and character.

70
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Despite the exotic locale, this is a coming-of-age tale that should be familiar to anyone raised on the tales of Jack London or Robert Louis Stevenson.

70
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
The elegiac tone here isn't set just by nostalgia for a vanished lifestyle: bereavement, lost love, and the ever present floodwaters add poignancy to the elliptical story, whose characters float in and out unbidden, and sometimes unexplained.


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