Blue Bayou (2021)
Storyline
As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.
Directors
Cast
Justin Chon, Linh Đan Phạm, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Randy Austin, Geraldine Singer, Emory Cohen, Alicia Vikander, Renell Gibbs, Jim Gleason, Rhonda Johnson Dents, Susan McPhail, Jeremy Sande, Mark O'Brien, Martin Bats Bradford, Sylvia Grace Crim, Sydney Kowalske, Toby Vitrano, Altonio Jackson, Truong Quang Tran, Ivy Vy Le, Sage Kim Gray, Jacci Gresham, Tyler Henry, Kernesha Steele, Monica Choe Sterling, Brad Blanchard, Josef A. Pons, Chris Bosarge, Haley Anslem, Satinder Achreja, Sean Richmond
Trailer
Reviews
80
It is both a passionate exposé of a serious injustice and a big emotional ride that is also prepared to take some interesting risks in its journey towards a old-school tear-jerker finale.
75
What Blue Bayou does wonderfully in these quiet moments is illustrate that being Asian is not a one-size-fits-all identity but a vast tapestry of different cultures.
75
The Seattle Times
As Chon calibrates a wide variety of emotions, allowing space for all the agonies, ecstasies, repressions and excesses, he crafts a tale of intergenerational traumas and personal redemptions that is an emotionally complicated yet ultimately cathartic viewing experience.
70
Artfulness and restraint can be admirable qualities in a filmmaker, but rage and despair, when channeled with this much force and purpose, can be undeniably effective substitutes.
70
Chon aims for the pulse at the end, but he may not have realized that he didn't have to try so hard — he had already effortlessly plucked at the heartstrings.
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