Three Seasons

Rating:
Summary: Enchanting Memories
Review: What a lovely film that touches the heart. It is truly an enchanting film with story lines that make you feel deeply in your soul. There were scenes that were so beautiful ... like the red flowers during summer time. The Vietnamese dress was breathtaking...in white floating within a forest of red.
Take your time to welcome in a new culture and savor the beauty of its country. This movie is like a fresh air on a summer day. Highly recommended!!!

Rating:
Summary: this is the way films should be done
Review: What a superb film! Set in Vietnam, it tells three different stories (in different settings--although the stories overlap slightly) but somehow has a cohesion that works very well. I would call that cohesion by the name of "humanity." My favorite story is that of a bike taxi (cyclo) driver who befriends a jaded prostitute and treats her with common dignity. (I won't go into detail in order to save the masterful character development to your viewing.) The acting of these two characters and the way the camera catches their essences is simply amazing.

The other two stories are nearly as great. One is of a woman who begins a new job of harvesting and selling lotus flowers and how she adapts to her initially-cold co-workers and to the mysterious man who lives on an island in the middle of the waterway where they harvest the flowers. An extraordinarily beautiful scene involves the ladies at work in their small wooden boats singing together among the lotus blossoms. The other story is of an American ex-serviceman who is in Vietnam to try to contact his now-grown daughter that he never knew.

In summation, if you are looking for a hollywood thriller, this is not your film. But if you like to sit and absorb the scenes, ways, and feelings of an interesting setting and to be part of an intelligent, humane, and moving story, give this film a try.
Note: Most of the conversation is in Vietnamese (and a bit of English) with English subtitles.

Rating:
Summary: this is the way films should be done
Review: What a superb film! Set in Vietnam, it tells three different stories (in different settings--although the stories overlap slightly) but somehow has a cohesion that works very well. I would call that cohesion by the name of "humanity." My favorite story is that of a bike taxi (cyclo) driver who befriends a jaded prostitute and treats her with common dignity. (I won't go into detail in order to save the masterful character development to your viewing.) The acting of these two characters and the way the camera catches their essences is simply amazing.

The other two stories are nearly as great. One is of a woman who begins a new job of harvesting and selling lotus flowers and how she adapts to her initially-cold co-workers and to the mysterious man who lives on an island in the middle of the waterway where they harvest the flowers. An extraordinarily beautiful scene involves the ladies at work in their small wooden boats singing together among the lotus blossoms. The other story is of an American ex-serviceman who is in Vietnam to try to contact his now-grown daughter that he never knew.

In summation, if you are looking for a hollywood thriller, this is not your film. But if you like to sit and absorb the scenes, ways, and feelings of an interesting setting and to be part of an intelligent, humane, and moving story, give this film a try.
Note: Most of the conversation is in Vietnamese (and a bit of English) with English subtitles.