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- 1996
- Cinépix Film Properties (CFP)
- 2 h 3 m
- 1996
- Cinépix Film Properties (CFP)
- 2 h 3 m
Summary When a poor bicycle-taxi driver has his cyclo stolen, he is forced into a life of crime. Meanwhile, his sister becomes a sex worker.
Directed By: Anh Hung Tran
Written By: Anh Hung Tran
- 1996
- Cinépix Film Properties (CFP)
- 2 h 3 m
- 1996
- Cinépix Film Properties (CFP)
- 2 h 3 m
Cyclo
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Summary When a poor bicycle-taxi driver has his cyclo stolen, he is forced into a life of crime. Meanwhile, his sister becomes a sex worker.
Directed By: Anh Hung Tran
Written By: Anh Hung Tran
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
76
67% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
33% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Tran's film is a startling achievement: brimming with moments of exquisite tenderness and shocking brutality -- sometimes simultaneously -- and each invested with an almost perverse beauty.
With its finely shaded portrayals, Cyclo, which took the Golden Lion at Venice last year, is another superb picture from Hung, a world-class filmmaker if ever there was one. [01 Aug 1996, p.F2]
Despite its seamy nature, Cyclo abounds with touching small moments, acts of kindness and acts of charity. [01 Aug 1996]
Hung skillfully evokes the oppressive congestion, squalor and heat of Ho Chi Minh City. (Amazingly, given the controlling nature of Vietnam's socialist government, the warts-and-all movie was shot on location.) But he is less successful at developing the character of his characters.
An extraordinarily imaginative director, Tran fashions Cyclo into a sensualist nightmare.
Violent and sometimes shocking, this is nevertheless superbly acted, brilliantly shot piece.
That Ho Chi Minh City is as rotten as the old Saigon, only more cynical and decrepit, is no great revelation, and we learn little of how ordinary people live or how society is organised in Vietnam today. [24 Mar 1996, p.12]
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Production Company
Canal+,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
Cofimage 5,
Cofimage 6,
Giai Phong Film Studio,
La Sept Cinéma,
Les Productions Lazennec,
Lumière,
Salon Films,
Société Française de Production (SFP)
Release Date Aug 2, 1996
Duration 2 h 3 m
Tagline From the director of the Academy Award Nominated film "The Scent of Green Papaya" comes a shocking new vision of beauty, passion and power.
Awards
Venice Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Ghent International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Turkish Film Critics Association (SIYAD) Awards
• 1 Nomination
