Cyclo (film)
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Cyclo is a 1995 film
by Vietnam
ese 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
.
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:
Film
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by Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
ese director
Film director
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Tran Anh Hung
Tran Anh Hung
Trần Anh Hùng is a French film director of Vietnamese ancestry.He was born in Đà Nẵng, Central Vietnam, and emigrated to France when he was 12 following the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975....
(who had made The Scent of Green Papaya
The Scent of Green Papaya
The Scent of Green Papaya is a Vietnamese-language film produced in France by Lazennec Production, and directed by Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung....
). It stars Le Van Loc, Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai is a Hong Kong film actor and former TVB actor. A major film star since the 1990s, Leung has won nine Hong Kong Film Awards and three Golden Horse Best Actor awards...
and Trần Nữ Yên Khê. Le Van Loc plays a young cyclo
Cycle rickshaw
The cycle rickshaw is a small-scale local means of transport; it is also known by a variety of other names such as velotaxi, pedicab, bikecab, cyclo, becak, trisikad, or trishaw or, simply, rickshaw which also refers to auto rickshaws, and the, now uncommon, rickshaws pulled by a person on foot...
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
Golden Lion
Il Leone d’Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes...
at the Venice Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
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.
Soundtrack
The film soundtrackSoundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
was written by Vietnamese composer Tôn-Thât Tiêt
Ton-That Tiet
Tôn Thất Tiết is a Vietnamese music composer.-Biography:Born in Huê in central Vietnam in 1933, Tiet came to Paris in 1958 to study composition at the Paris Conservatoire. He attended Jean Rivier and André Jolivet classes for composition...
, who also collaborated with Trân Anh Hung on The Scent of Green Papaya
The Scent of Green Papaya
The Scent of Green Papaya is a Vietnamese-language film produced in France by Lazennec Production, and directed by Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung....
. 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:
- Nắng Chiều - Sung and played by handicapped street performers.
- Ru Con (Lullaby) sung by Lullaby Man.
- Thằng Bờm (Little Bờm)- Sung by Sad Woman to Crazy Son. Transliteration and translation.
- Em ơi, Hà Nội phố - Sung by Thanh LamThanh LamThanh Lam is a Vietnamese singer and song-writer who has been a long-standing Diva in Vietnamese contemporary music.-Early life and education:...
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- Playing in dance club.