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	Cyclo (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cyclo (Xích Lô) is a 1995 film by Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung, starring Le Van Loc, Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Tran Nu Yen-Khe.
		Tran plays a young cyclo driver who is forced into working for a gang after his cycle is stolen.
		This article related to French film is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cyclo_(movie) (147 words)

	Cyclo
		Cyclo's boss (Nguyen Nhu) is known only as the Boss Lady (none of the characters in the film are named) who leads a criminal operation while taking care of her retarded son (Bjuhoang Huy).
		Cyclo is forced to stay in an apartment away from his family and told to perform errands for the gang such as smuggling dope hidden in slaughtered cattle and throwing a gasoline firebomb into the building of the rival gang that stole his pedicab.
		Cyclo is disturbing and raw but it is an original work of art, both a brutal and often bizarre look at Saigon's mean streets, and a searing love poem to the city and a young man who finally steps outside the vicious circle to discover himself beyond the chaos.
	www.dvd-today.com /dvd/B0000DIJP0/Cyclo.html (1891 words)

	cyclo
		Images of water and fire are used throughout the film for purposes of symbolically cleansing the soul and destroying the impurities in it.
		When Cyclo is drugged-out he paints his face blue and swallows some goldfish (whatever that symbolically means!) and the Madam confuses him for her son, forgiving him for everything as she sings lullabies to him.
		This film is a visual masterpiece, capturing the frenetic pace of life in the city and the faces of sorrow on the poor; it paints an unsentimental picture of a place that is a living hell.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/cyclo.htm (1457 words)

	Xich lo (1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		While Tran Anh Hung's "Cyclo" is one of the most stunningly visual films that I have ever seen, I have heard it commented that it is merely "eye candy." I think that this statement could most certainly be argued for by someone who isn't very perceptive.
		Because although "Cyclo" is a film that is very much a film that is about movement and composition, it is much more than simply "eye candy." It is, I think, one of the greatest films I have ever seen.
		The story of "Cyclo" is that of a young man who practically supports his family as a pedicab driver ("cyclo") on the mean streets of Saigon.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0112767 (613 words)

	Film Scouts Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		When someone asked whether "Cyclo", shot in Saigon, had been setup as a co-production with a Vietnamese studio or entirely produced by the French, the jet-lagged, flued-out director replied: "I may answer this question later; I don't think that constitutes the essence or the main thrust of the film." The audience was taken aback.
		Cyclo is caught in the web of crime and violence, and one doesn't see how he could get out of it, except for a miracle.
		Cyclo's father is dead, yet present in his memory; the poet's father is physically present, but dead in his son's mind.
	www.filmscouts.com /scripts/interview.cfm?File=2759 (1534 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Cyclo (Xich Lo)
		Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1995 Venice Film Festival, director Tran Anh Hung's (The Scent of Green Papaya) film follows a young cyclo (bicycle cab) driver (Le Van Loc) on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City.
		As the film progresses, the siblings begin to lose all sense of their own identities as they careen on separate but equally entropic paths.
		The film is full of these moments of unarticulated ritual, expressing the nihilistic fatalism at the core of things.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/cyclo.php (885 words)

	the iMAGAZINE - Anh Hung "Cyclo" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Cyclo, the title of Anh Hung's second tome and labour of love, is not a film for the faint-hearted.
		Visceral and tormented it is an acknowledgment and statement that speaks as much of a generation as it does a race of people, while recreating the primal nuances of concrete, fatigue, sweat, blood, innocence and corruption that holds Vietnam's population to ransom.
		The usual plethora of films based in Vietnam's exotic climes depict wars fought in the impenetrable jungles, but where Hung is concerned this is also a place that also takes its young and breaks them physically and emotionally while leaving them to walk a tightrope edge of insanity.
	www.thei.aust.com /isite/cellcyclo.html (497 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Cyclo
		The film is infused with a vision of innocence lost and found (and defiled with blood) and awash in symbols such as the nosebleeds that strike a poet (in fact, he is called the Poet) turned to crime as he literally dissects a flower or dispassionately watches a fresh young girl corrupted.
		The son of a cyclo who was killed in a traffic accident, his family consists of a grandfather who fixes bicycle tires; a younger sister who is a shoe-shine girl; and an older daughter, called Sister (Tran Nu Yên Khê, the lead from The Scent of Green Papaya).
		The Cyclo is employed by the Madam (Nguyen Nhu Quynh), a boss with a brain-damaged son and many businesses, a few of which are legitimate.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.01.96/cyclo-9631.html (1242 words)

	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		The boss the Cyclo works for is the Madam and her beloved retarded son is the Crazy Son.
		Cyclo originally ran 129 minutes, and I saw it at that length a little over a year ago.
		In the case of Cyclo, where each character is brought to a kind of grisly apotheosis, these cuts unquestionably do harm; certainly the Sister's role in the overall dramaturgy has been obscured and confused.
	www.chicagoreader.com /movies/archives/1196/11016.html (1279 words)

	Review - Cyclo (1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Cyclo wants out of his low paying job, which might eventually cripple him if he can't find something better to do.
		Cyclo, at first frightened of him, he soon becomes enamoured with The Poet's power, and wants in on the gangster lifestyle himself.
		"Cyclo" is brutal, unflinching and honest--a minor masterpiece only flawed by some overly stylish posturing which detracts from the gritty reality of the story being told.
	www.cinetalk.org /review_cyclo.htm (360 words)

	Movie Info for Cyclo on MSN Movies
		Cyclo lives with his grandfather (Le Kinh Huy) and two sisters (Tran Nu Yen-Khe and Pham Ngoc Lieu), and drives his taxi for a bitter woman (Nhu Quynh Nguyen) who devotes most of her time to her mentally unstable son (Bjuhoang Huy).
		What Cyclo doesn't know at first is that the poet is also a pimp, and he's been using his romantic wiles to lure Cyclo's older sister into a career as a prostitute.
		Cyclo was directed by Tran Anh Hung, whose breakthrough film was the acclaimed drama The Scent of Green Papaya.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=38013 (237 words)

	Cyclo (Xich Lo) Film Review - Time Out Film
		When the 'cyclo' (Le Van Loc) tells his boss that his vehicle's been stolen by professional rivals, he finds himself at the mercy of the Poet (Tony Leung), a taciturn gangster who diverts the boy from self-improvement (as advised by his late father) and into a life of crime.
		With its dazzling camerawork, feverish energy and dark, visceral power, this admirably unsentimental film paints a compelling portrait of moral derailment and salvation in a city in social and spiritual turmoil.
		The plot's packed with absent, uncaring or malign father figures; the tone is alternately tender or brutally violent; and the use of water and fire as symbols of purification and destruction gives rise to vivid dreamlike imagery.
	www.timeout.com /film/69991.html (236 words)

	Cyclo . Weekly Alibi . 04-16-97
		Hung, however, holds the film together with his extraordinary ornate images--which serve as a juxtaposition to the hideous and unforgiving urban world in which his subjects live.
		The word "cyclo" is the name for the pedal-driven cabs so common on the streets of Vietnam.
		After his cyclo is stolen, he seeks revenge by hooking up with one of the many street gangs of the city.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/alibi/c/cyclo_f.html (475 words)

	Tony Leung Chiu-wai's Page
		The Vietnamese film Cyclo is a difficult, depressing, yet visionary film about the hellish aftermath of decades of war.
		Cyclo is as visually exhilarating as it is emotionally devastating.
		Cyclo is an unusual film, far out of the mainstream, yet it is a remarkably rich offering for those willing to risk it.
	www.tonyleung.org /moviereviews/review13.shtml (416 words)

	NOSTALGIA FOR THE GUTTER \| Film \| The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
		A group of cyclo drivers are reflecting on their extremely modest incomes, and one remarks that they do not earn enough money in one month to pay for just one night in the cheapest room at the fancy hotel where they wait for passengers.
		His fellow cyclo driver smiles and says that he wouldn't want to stay at a four- or even a five-star hotel, since he sleeps in a thousand-star place every night.
		For the communists, the film offers the idolization of the peasant (a popular theme in Socialist Realism fiction); for the capitalists, the film offers the chance to sentimentalize poverty, to see the poor in all their glory.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=947 (943 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Film Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Our guide is 18-year-old Cyclo (Loc), one of the thousands of young men who make their meager living shuttling nameless passengers throughout the city via “cyclos,” large, three-wheeled bicycles with seats attached to their fronts.
		Cyclo's father -- also a cyclo driver -- was killed in a recent traffic accident and memories of his father's admonitions to “try to find a better life” weigh heavily upon the young man's soul.
		Cyclo lives in a tiny tenement with his older sister (Khe), who makes water deliveries to the nearby market; his younger sister, who shines shoes in the market; and his aged grandfather, who repairs cyclo tires.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gbase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:137960 (564 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Tran Anh Hung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		However, the film is not so much about history as about corruption and its ongoing effects on each new generation.
		Tran has been heavily influenced by French film (he moved to Paris in 1975 at age 13), and his first film, 1993’s "The Scent of Green Papaya," is surely a beautiful nod to French lyricism.
		The film centers on a young servant girl who develops an enduring but secret attachment to a rich friend of her employer.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=1041 (457 words)

	Cyclo (1995)
		In that film the audience gets to experience the lead character, a young woman, stare with a blank smile on her face at such things as ants crawling around on leaves.
		He is a cyclo (bicycle taxi driver) and is basically supporting his extended family of grandparents, siblings, etc. since his father was killed in an accident a year earlier.
		The photography is gorgeous, and the pace of the film is somewhat languid, somewhat surreal.
	www.moviepie.com /rent/cyclo.htm (428 words)

	HeadLight Journal >> Film Reivew >> "The Vertical Ray of the Sun" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The use of color in the film could easily be an essay in itself, as it expresses passages of time, tone, and volumes about character idenity.
		They rush for shelter, pause in silence, then Hai suddenly bursts out "Cyclo!" A cyclo, in case you don't know, is the Vietnamese version of ataxi, except it is a bicycle with carriage.
		The film teases the viewer for two hours as Lien flirts with her brother, sleeps in his bed, dances with him to Velvet Underground and Arab Strap songs, and longs to be more than just a sister.
	www.headlightjournal.com /film-reviews/vertical-ray/sun.html (2307 words)

	Amazon.com: Cyclo (1996) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Cyclo is visually powerful with a deep socioeconomic and cinematic complexity as it depicts the tragedy of wanting.
		As mentioned previously, Cyclo is a departure from the lyrical The Scent of Green Papaya as well as The Vertical Ray of the Sun.
		Cyclo has to be one of the most violent films that I have ever seen.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1567301304?v=glance (3064 words)

	FILM REVIEW -- `Cyclo' No Ride In the Country / Crime and violence in Ho Chi Minh City
		As Bay Area audiences found when ``Cyclo'' opened the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival in March, it's a big departure from the delicate lyricism of ``Green Papaya.'' Violent, disjunctive and exhausting, it's a dark fable that illustrates with startling images the strong, seductive pull of evil.
		In Vietnam, a ``cyclo'' is a driver of a bicycle taxi or pedicab.
		When the cyclo's bicycle is stolen, the Madam forces him to work off the cost, making him her prisoner and assigning him to the Poet (Tony Leung-Chiu Wai).
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/08/02/DD71096.DTL (550 words)

	Movie Review \| Cyclo (1995) Le Van Loc, Tony Leung Chiu Wai
		When the Madame has the cyclo cab stolen in order to rent it back to him at even higher rates, she points the cyclo over to her chief enforcer, a brooding, silent brute known only as The Poet (Hong Kong actor Tony Leung, "Infernal Affairs").
		"Cyclo" uses parallel stories to follow the cyclo, the cyclo's virginal older sister's love for The Poet (despite the fact that he's pimping her out), and the Madame's struggle to come to terms with her retarded son.
		The film is full of moments of unspoken ritual, and nihilistic fatalism permeates every aspect of life in "Cyclo".
	www.beyondhollywood.com /reviews/cyclo.htm (870 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Cyclo
		The title character (a cyclo is a bicycle taxi driver) is scraping a living together for his two sisters and grandfather by carting people to and fro within Ho Chi Minh City.
		The cyclo (a sinewy Le Van Loc) and his sister become intrigued by the mysterious Poet (Tony Leung) who also happens to be a gang leader and puts them both to work as a street thug and a fetish-only prostitute, respectively.
		The characters, such as they are (they don't even have names, just occupational designations), live primarily through a faintly contrived sensation-based relationship with their environment, which basically means they occasionally put living animals in their mouths.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=998 (261 words)

	Film Scouts Reviews: Xich lo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The roads of modern-day Ho chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) are filled with cyclos, bicycle rickshaws pedalling through the chaotic city to convey packages or passengers to their destinations.
		Losing his rented cyclo, probably to gang warfare, the young man, is forced to commit various acts of sabotage to pay back his boss-renter.
		Brimming with corruption and lost innocence, mixing violence with tenderness, "Cyclo" confirms the incredible talent of the 33-year-old man who made his directorial debut with "The Scent of the Green Papaya".
	www.filmscouts.com /scripts/review.cfm?File=cyclo (224 words)

	MovieMaker Magazine \| Issue #28 \| The Best and Worst of 1997 on Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Cyclo - There is not a wasted image in this film from Vietnamese director Hung Tran Anh (The Scent of Green Papaya).
		Hung is not so concerned with plot mechanicsthe story, about a young cyclo (pronounced SEEK-low) driver who is forced into a gang to keep his job, is disjointed and at times confusing.
		The technical exercise that follows is such a film school bore that you desperately start fast-forwarding to find the next good scene until you realize it doesn't exist.
	www.moviemaker.com /issues/28/28_homecinema.html (1525 words)

	Calendar Archives - School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Maryland
		The theme of this year's film series is "The Outsider." Please encourage your students, colleagues and friends to come to the Hoff Theater for this educational, entertaining, and free event, sponsored by the School of Languages, The Office of International Education, and the Hoff Theater.
		SLLC and the Department of French and Italian are proud to present an International Film Series double feature: "Prendini l'anima" (The Soul Keeper; directed by Roberto Faenza) is the story of a 19-yearold girl under the care of Carl Jung, who falls in love with her.
		In this film by the director of The Scent of the Green Papayas, a young man who ekes out a living with his bicycle taxi in Ho Chi Minh City (the former Saigon) is introduced to the world of organized crime.
	www.languages.umd.edu /calendar/archives.php (3294 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - CYCLO- A film by Tran Anh Hung
		Cyclo is a more classic narrative driven city romance with all sorts of different material issues to deal with : like vice, politics, economy...
		Cyclo is only 3rd, because i had some issues with the plot (whiches i cant remember now), but it's very enjoyable.
		Cyclo comes third (despite the presence of my beloved Tony Leung) since I felt uncomfortable with the afore mentioned blue paint sequence.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=331344 (1444 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Cyclo [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		This film manages to be fantasticly calm, despite the depection of corruption in Vietnam.
		The film tells the stroy of a boy and his sister, living secret lives in order to financially support their remaining family.
		The film is slow moving yet not dull, we see murder, prostitution and madness, at a reflective pace.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000DIJP0 (412 words)

	Bicycle Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Acclaimed NYC filmmaker and photographer, Sutherland is known for his work as Director of Photography on the skateboarding film "Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator" which played to audiences nationwide, as well as the photography book AUTOGRAF.
		Pedal is a fast-paced documentary film about surviving in the streets of NYC as a bicycle messenger.
		It premiered in 2001 at the South by Southwest film festival and in New York at the Bicycle Film Festival, and later was acquired by the Sundance channel, where it aired until 2004.
	www.bicyclefilmfestival.com /dev/index.html (481 words)

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