Three Seasons
New York Asian Film Festival 2024
July 12 - 22, 2024
Tony Bui’s debut feature is a love letter to rain-soaked Saigon, weaving together four lives in a tale that’s at once gritty and poetic, a snapshot of a place where the old and new collide in a dance of beauty and despair.
Q&A with Tony Bui
Three Seasons is a film that refuses to be forgotten, and a new 4K restoration thankfully brings an alternative to its many pixelated YouTube links or glitchy pirate DVDs. A gem shot on Vietnamese soil (and the first of its kind) just as the U.S. decided to play nice, Tony Bui’s debut feature is a love letter to rain-soaked Saigon, a city caught in the whirlwind of change. The story weaves together four lives: a cyclo driver (Đơn Dương) who finds a kindred spirit in a world-weary prostitute (Zoe Bui); a street kid (Nguyễn Hữu Được) who befriends a U.S. G.I. (Harvey Keitel); and a young vendor (Ngọc Hiệp) who seeks beauty in the fleeting perfection of lotus flowers. It’s a tale that’s at once gritty and poetic, a snapshot of a place where the old and new collide in a dance of beauty and despair. Three Seasons’ long-overdue return to the festival circuit isn’t just a tech upgrade—it’s a rescue mission for a film that deserves to be seen in all its poetic glory.
Three Seasons is extravagantly beautiful.
—Roger Ebert
A dreamy cinematic poem.
—Stephen Holden, The New York Times
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