Cyclo

Cyclo is a Film free-Vietnamese carried out by Anh Hung Tran, left the September 15th 1995.

Synopsis

Ho Chi Minh City, 1995: a cyclo young person works hard to make live his family, but this one also knows the direction of the word sacrifice: the big sister studies the morning to work in kitchens until very late the evening, the smallest wax of the shoes to very the street, as for the grandfather, it works to death herself by reinflating the tires out of the bicycles at the edges out of the roads. The day when the young man is made steal his instrument of work, it will have to pose a first foot in the world of the illegality. Its employers then will push it more and more far. To the point of rupture?

Data sheet

Title: Cyclo
original Title: Xích lô
Realization: Tran Anh Hung
Scenario: Nguyen Trung Binh and Tran Anh Hung
Production: Christophe Rossignon, Adeline Lecallier and Alain Rocca
Music: Tiêt Tone-Thât
Photography: Benoit Delhomme and Laurence Trémolet
Assembly: Nicole Dedieu and Claude Ronzeau
Country of origin: Vietnam, France
Format: Colors - 1,85:1 - Dolby DIGITAL - 35 mm
Kind: Drama
Lasted: 120 minutes
Comings out date: September 15th 1995 (festival of Toronto), September 27th 1995 (France)
Film prohibited with less than 12 years at the time of its exit in France

Distribution

Van Loc: Cyclo
Tony Leung Chiu Wai: The poet
Naked Tran Yen-Khê: The sister
Nguyen Nhu Quynh: Madam
Nguyen Hoang Phuc: Tooth
Hall Ngo Considering Quang: Knife
Nguyen Tuyet Ngan: The happy woman
ha Doan Vietnamese soldier: The sad woman
Huy Bjuhoang: The insane son
Phuc Vo Vinh: The friend Cyclo
Huy Kinh: The grandfather
Place Pham Ngoc: The little sister
Anh Tuan: The man handcuffed
Anh Cong Tuan: The drunk dancer

Rewards

Lion of gold of Marc Saint and price FIPRESCI at the time of the Mostra of Venice 1995.
Spur of gold (Tran Anh Hung) and price Georges Delerue (Tiêt Tone-Thât), at the time of the International festival of film of Flandres 1995.

External bonds

Critiques Cinemasie
Critiques HK Handled

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