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Three Seasons
Overly romanticised Vietnamese drama about various inhabitants of urban slums in what used to
be Saigon, and the beautifully photographed countryside. A young woman picks flowers, singing
while she works. A boy treks round selling cigarette lighters to tourists and he meets Harvey
Keitel, playing a former soldier looking for his native daughter. A cyclo-cabbie falls in love
with an unaffordable prostitute (shades of Taxi Driver?) and enters a race to win enough
money for a night with her. Apart from a reclusive old poet who dies of leprosy (no surprise),
this film is all about happy endings. The boy loses but later reclaims his suitcase of goods,
Keitel eventually locates his offspring, while the hard working cyclo driver gets the girl.
Young director, Tony Bui, brings a strangely fairy tale quality to the stories here. Everything
looks gorgeous, yet this is not a travelogue. The locals are very nice people, but foreigners
are invariably presented as decadent swine. Nothing even slightly controversial is ever allowed
to distract from the languid flow of the plot. Nothing happens in Three Seasons that
isn't - well, to be expected. Nothing is ventured, and nothing much gained. DOWSE
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