Cyclo (film)

Cyclo (film)
Cyclo

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Tran Anh Hung
Produced by Christophe Rossignon
Written by Tran Anh Hung
Starring Le Van Loc
Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Trần Nữ Yên Khê
Music by Tôn-Thât Tiêt
Cinematography Benoît Delhomme
Laurence Trémolet
Editing by Nicole Dedieu
Claude Ronzeau
Distributed by New Yorker Video (Region 1 DVD)
Gaumont (Region 2 DVD)
Release date(s) Italy September 1995 (premiere at VFF)
United Kingdom 22 March 1996
United States 2 August 1996
Australia 19 September 1996
Running time 123 minutes
Country Vietnam
France
Hong Kong
Language Vietnamese

Cyclo (Vietnamese: Xích Lô) is a 1995 film by Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung (who had made The Scent of Green Papaya). It stars Le Van Loc, Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Trần Nữ Yên Khê. Le Van Loc plays a young cyclo driver who is forced into working for a gang after his cycle is stolen. Soon, his sister also comes under the influence of the gang and becomes a prostitute. A lieutenant in the gang with demons of his own wrestles with growing feelings for the sister even as he continues to prostitute her out to other men. The brother and sister sink to depths they had never imagined and must claw their way back out again.

The film was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Soundtrack

The film soundtrack was written by Vietnamese composer Tôn-Thât Tiêt, who also collaborated with Trân Anh Hung on The Scent of Green Papaya. The score received a "Best Music" award at the Festival International de Flandre in (1995). The soundtrack also contains several well-known Vietnamese ca dao (folk songs) and other popular songs:

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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) · Urga (1991) · The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) · Short Cuts / Three Colors: Blue (1993) · Vive L'Amour / Before the Rain (1994) · Cyclo (1995) · Michael Collins (1996) · Fireworks (1997) · The Way We Laughed (1998) · Not One Less (1999) · The Circle (2000) · Monsoon Wedding (2001) · The Magdalene Sisters (2002) · The Return (2003) · Vera Drake (2004) · Brokeback Mountain (2005) · Still Life (2006) · Lust, Caution (2007) · The Wrestler (2008) · Lebanon (2009)
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