Blue Bayou Review — Blue Bayou (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by Justin Chon and starring Justin Chon, Alicia Vikander, Mark O’Brien, Linh Dan Pham, Sydney Kowalske, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Emory Cohen, Geraldine Singer, Toby Vitrano, Altonio Jackson, Sage Kim Gray, Renell Gibbs, Martin Bats Bradford and Susan McPhail. Director Justin Chon has crafted an [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Blue Bayou (2021): Justin Chon’s Moving Film is an Emotionally Powerful Triumph...
Continue reading: Film Review: Blue Bayou (2021): Justin Chon’s Moving Film is an Emotionally Powerful Triumph...
- 9/19/2021
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
. If done well, these tear-jerkers can emotionally galvanize audiences into grappling with the sort of social injustice that people tend to cry over in the dark of a theater and then leave behind when they re-emerge into the light of day. If done poorly, they risk glazing an urgent problem with a gloss of untruth, and making an all-too-real tragedy from our own backyard feel like the kind of thing that only happens in the movies. An eye-opening sob-fest that eventually loses sight of its everyday tragedy behind a thick veil of tears, “Blue Bayou” is such an uncommonly lucid example of this phenomenon because it manages to cut both ways at the same time.
The crux of the film’s story hinges on the immigration status of this country’s foreign-born adoptees; a bill was passed in the year 2000 that granted them American citizenship, but that long-overdue change didn...
The crux of the film’s story hinges on the immigration status of this country’s foreign-born adoptees; a bill was passed in the year 2000 that granted them American citizenship, but that long-overdue change didn...
- 7/16/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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