Cyclo (film)

Cyclo
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTrần Anh Hùng
Written byTran Anh Hung
Produced byChristophe Rossignon
Starring
CinematographyBenoît Delhomme
Laurence Trémolet
Edited byNicole Dedieu
Claude Ronzeau
Music byTôn-Thât Tiêt
Distributed byNew Yorker Video (Region 1 DVD)
Gaumont (Region 2 DVD)
Release dates
  • September 1995 (1995-09) (Venice)
  • 22 March 1996 (1996-03-22) (UK)
Running time
123 minutes
CountriesVietnam[1]
France[1]
LanguageVietnamese

Cyclo (Vietnamese: Xích Lô [sɨt̚˦˥ lo˧˧]) is a 1995 film by Tran Anh Hung. It stars Lê Văn Lộc, Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Trần Nữ Yên Khê. The film is about the hard lives of the labor force in early 1990s Ho Chi Minh City, and how people come under the influence of crime.

The film is considered hard to understand because of abstract and wordless communication. However, in a review, Janet Maslin asserted that this style, which is typical of the film director, makes the movie more memorable and successful.[2] The film won the Golden Lion at the 52nd Venice International Film Festival.[3]

  1. ^ a b "CYCLO (1995)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 2012-07-12.
  2. ^ "Movie Reviews". The New York Times. 2023-05-12. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
  3. ^ Blum-Reid, Sylvie (2003). East-West Encounters: Franco-Asian Cinema and Literature. Wallflower Press. p. 166. ISBN 978-1-903364-67-3.