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'Three Seasons'

7618 (Woodward ‘Ave., 'Detroit

The first American feature to be filmed in
Vietnam since the war opens this year's
Detroit Film Theatre lineup.

(313) 871-1590

Reservations are suggested

(offer good only at our(Detroit location)

this incredible longing to go back to
Vietnam. I wanted to hear the 'ding'
of the bikes, the noises, the women
selling bread in the morning."
Tony
Bui,
26,
an
American
or
Some months later he returned,
making his first feature film
stayed in the same house, and began
in the ancestral land of his
to figure what it all was about." A
family, success came only after
few years after that, he was in Saigon
a very trying return there as a teen.
making his short film, Yellow Lotus,
On a first visit to Vietnam to see
about a peasant in the big city. It
relatives, he hated the place.
found success at the Sundance Film
"I had never left the States," he
Festival,
but more crucially proved to
recalls, over a sandwich and tea in the
the Vietnamese that the young film-
office of his film's distributor. "I was
maker could make a
born in Vietnam,
but came here at 2.
Above: An unidentified Vietnamese sensitive, nonpoliti-
As kids, we tried so
actress with Harvey Keitel in a scene cal film about their
changing country.
hard to assimilate,
from "Three Seasons." Keitel is the
Bui now feels vir-
only American player in the
pushing our heritage
),
tually
at home in
otherwise
all-Vietnamese
cast.
away.
Saigon (officially, Ho
The Brooklyn-born Jewish actor
At 19, he flew to
Chi Minh City),
also executive produced the film.
Vietnam, and "I can
where the
remember like yester-
Vietnamese are very embracing — the
day the door of the plane opening and
people, more than the government. You
this humidity just hitting me. I was so
have to clear everything as you work,
hot I could hardly sleep in Saigon. It
but people were so accepting of us. And
was the monsoon season, and I even
I could speak the language, which I had
got bitten because I didn't know to
been embarrassed to speak growing up.
keep my hand away from the mosquito
It felt great to be surrounded by millions
netting at night.
of people who look like me, which I will
"Also, the embargo was still on;
never have here.
there were no Americans, just Russian
His film Three Seasons intercuts
tourists who wanted the heat. My place
three
stories "based on people I know,
water,
no
toilet
but
an
had no running
or knew about," often on city streets
outhouse. I couldn't wait to get out.
hammered by heat and rain. Ho Chi
But then I arrived in San
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Francisco, and I started to cry. I had

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