An American foreign film, subtitles and all, shot in Vietnam by first-time director Tony Bui, a Saigon native raised in Sunnyvale, California. The ambitious survey of postwar society -- a cyclo driver and the call girl he has a crush on, a flower girl and the leprous poet she coaxes from the shadows, an American vet in search of his bastard daughter ("to make peace with this place"), and a little street vendor in search of his stolen case of wares -- goes soft and sticky at every spot on the spectrum. And it goes slow, too. With Don Duong, Nguyen Ngoc Hiep, Zoe Bui, and Harvey Keitel. (1999) — Duncan Shepherd
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