Blue Bayou, a drama about America’s deeply flawed immigration system, had its world premiere on Tuesday as part of the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival. Written and direc…
There is no denying the emotional power and timeliness of this sort of a story — I would describe it as a cross between, with a denouement that particularly rips at the heartstrings — but it will be interesting to see if awards voters can get past a screenplay that almost every critic in Cannes observed is lacking in subtlety , overcrowded with characters and storylines and in which vitually every single thing that can go wrong does.
My gut feeling is that this film, in this era, will primarily click in indie circles — Gotham Awards, Spirit Awards etc. — if at all, and perhaps most of all for its central performances. Chon clearly pours his heart into a performance that he had been thinking about long before the cameras rolled.
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