Cyclo (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Cyclo |
| Original title | Xích Lô |
| Country of production | Vietnam , France |
| original language | Vietnamese |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 123 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Trần Anh Hùng |
| script | Trần Anh Hùng |
| production | Christophe Rossignon |
| music | Tôn-Thât Tiêt |
| camera |
Benoît Delhomme , Laurence Trémolet |
| cut |
Nicole Dedieu , Claude Ronzeau |
| occupation | |
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Cyclo ( Vietnamese Xich Lô ) is a film by French director Tran Anh Hung from the year 1995 . It play Lê Văn Lộc , Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Tran Nu Yen Khe .
It is about the hard life of the workers in Ho Chi Minh City in the early 1990s and how people fell under the influence of crime.
action
The film is about the 18-year-old boy Cyclo, who has been orphaned since his father was killed in a truck accident while working as a rickshaw driver . The father wished his son had a better life than him. After his death, the boy has to take over the father's job because of the family's hardship and cycle through the lively streets of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) in a rental rickshaw to earn a living. The boy lives in a small house with his old grandfather, who repairs tires in spite of his poor health, his little sister who makes shoes for restaurant customers in the neighborhood, and his older sister who carries water to a local market.
Their poor but peaceful life is endangered when the rickshaw is stolen by a gang. Since the boy has no money to pay for the stolen rickshaw, he has no choice but to join a criminal organization run by a brooding gang leader, the "poet".
Meanwhile, his older sister is also under the poet's influence and becomes a prostitute. They develop feelings for one another. She visits his house where he is beaten by his father, who is angry with his job. The poet brings Cyclo to Mr. Lullaby, who kills a victim by slitting his neck while singing a lullaby.
Riots hit Ho Chi Minh City as various gangs fight each other. Cyclo blinds the man who stole his rickshaw in one eye and manages not to be seen by anyone. He visits his employer again to pay off part of his debts, but she refuses and deals with her retarded son, who has covered himself in yellow paint.
The poet instructs Cyclo to murder a man. His two accomplices give him a gun and teach him how to kill his intended target. They also give him a bottle of pills to allay his fears, but warn him not to take too many. The poet and Cyclos' sister visit places of his childhood. He leaves her in a nightclub with a client and she is abused by the man. Both the poet and the man recognize their mistakes and the man tries to compensate for this by bribing the poet with a hefty sum. But the poet kills the man, and then himself, by setting fire to the room he lives in.
Meanwhile, the son of the boss of the bike shop who stayed behind is killed when he is hit by a truck. Cyclo gets drunk and takes two pills of the drug he received from the poet's accomplices. He becomes hallucinatory in the apartment he was forced to stay in because he failed to kill the man. Instead, he covers himself with blue paint and then accidentally shoots himself twice due to the hallucinations. The next morning, the gang found him badly injured but still alive. Despite his failure, the boss spares his life because he reminds her of her deceased son and releases him from the gang. The film ends with Cyclo thinking of his father as he drives down a crowded street of Ho Chi Minh City with his grandfather and two sisters.
Reviews
Due to the abstract and wordless communication, the film is considered difficult to understand. In one review, Janet Maslin (1995) claimed that this typical director's style makes the film more memorable and successful.
The lexicon of international film sees the film as “a relentless inventory of the miserable living conditions and the anarchy in today's Vietnam, staged with reference to Eastern traditions of representation”, and emphasizes that “[d] documentary scenes [...] the conscious Detail character of what is shown [underline] ”.
Awards
The film won the Golden Lion at the 52nd Venice International Film Festival in 1995 and was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize . At the Flanders International Film Festival Ghent 1995 he won the Grand Prix for the best film. The composer Tôn-Thât Tiêt received the Georges Delerue Award for Best Music.
publication
Cyclo was first presented in September 1995 at the Venice International Film Festival and was released in German cinemas on November 16, 1995.
Soundtrack
The film soundtrack was written by the Vietnamese composer Tôn-Thât Tiêt, who already worked with Trần Anh Hùng on The Scent of Green Papaya . The soundtrack also features several well-known Vietnamese Ca Dao (folk songs) and other popular songs:
- Nắng Chiều - Sung and played by disabled street performers.
- Ru Con (lullaby) sung by Lullaby Man.
- Thằng Bờm (Little Bờm) - Sung by Sad Woman to Crazy Son. Transliteration and translation.
- Em ơi, Hà Nội phố - sung by Thanh Lam (the lounge singer).
- Creep by Radiohead - Playing in the dance club.
Web links
- Cyclo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cyclo in the lexicon of international film
- Cyclo at prisma.de
- Cyclo at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cyclo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Janet Maslin : FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: A Vietnamese Taxi Driver And His Unworldly Sister. In: nytimes.com. The New York Times , October 12, 1995, accessed February 26, 2019 .
- ^ Sylvie Blum-Reid: East-West Encounters: Franco-Asian Cinema and Literature . Wallflower Press, 2003, ISBN 978-1-903364-67-3 , p. 166.