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  • 2005
  • Global Film Initiative
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2005
  • Global Film Initiative
  • 1 h 42 m

Summary 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)

Directed By: Minh Nguyen-Vo

Written By: Nam Son, Minh Nguyen-Vo

  • 2005
  • Global Film Initiative
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2005
  • Global Film Initiative
  • 1 h 42 m

The Buffalo Boy

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Summary 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)

Directed By: Minh Nguyen-Vo

Written By: Nam Son, Minh Nguyen-Vo

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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.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
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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.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
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Sports a stronger narrative spine than is usual in Vietnamese rural dramas and a less fragile tone in its deployment of landscape and character.
By Derek Elley FULL REVIEW
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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.
By Andrea Gronvall FULL REVIEW

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Production Company 3B Productions, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel et des Télédistributeurs Wallons, Giai Phong Film Studio, Novak Production, Production Services, Thoke Moebius Film Company
Release Date Mar 11, 2005
Duration 1 h 42 m
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Awards

Locarno International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
Palm Springs International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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