3 Seasons (tiếng Việt: Ba Mùa) is an American Vietnamese language movie filmed in Vietnam about the past, present, & first of Saigon in the early days of Just released Vietnam. These are the poetic film that strains to suggest of the culture undergoing westernization. A picture requires place around Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon. When a characters try to are to terms by owning a invasion of capitalist economy, ne signs, gr& Five-star hotels, and Cocacola signs, their paths begin to merge.

Plot
In the misty morning of Saigon, jeune fille waken to pick lotuses from a flower pool to late sell to American tourists and fellow Vietnamese alike. To past a period, a girls sing rich folksong that touches a heart of a poet (Teacher Dao) world health organization sleep in an old temple overlooking the pool. Teacher Dao (Manh Cuong Tran) suffered leprosy at a age of Twenty-six & experienced consequently misused his fingers.

the girls (one of the babies a newcomer title Kien An (Ngoc Hiep Nguyen)) are trucked slay to a bustling streets of Saigon within which it sell the lotus in bundles for 5,000 đồng VND (roughly Xxx cents USD). Within Saigon, you meet different aspects of its denizen. Woody occurs as 9 to 10 month old street peddler world health organizatiin sells coffwithin nail, chewing gum, & various more items in the pack that hangs on the strap to his shoulder. Hai (Don Duong) is a cyclo driver who hangs out by using his crony touching the grand hotel.

Across the risk meeting, Hai at length lessens taken sustaining with Lan (Zoe Bui) who works as a fancy woman inside large hotels. Possibly on the face of it happy fallowing getting each Our contries dollars from either her clients, she carries the silent bitterness of herself & her clients. She tells Hai that she won't exist as doing this job for yearn & dreams of sleeping inside an air-conditioned room, using there is no of these to bother her. Lan seeks to embrace a capitalist invasion by re-inventing herself & though she resents a modus vivendi, she promises to a single day survive such as the babies. Hai respects her & understands across her anguish. When winning $50 USD around the cyclo race, he treats her to her dream. Lan feels shamefaced & rejects Hai's advances. She feels that she is incapable & doesn't deserve Hai's favorite professional assistance. When you took one of the previous scenes of the film, Lan eventually comes to terms sustaining herself & Hai when he requires her to a place video by using red blossoms. Lan, dressed inside the beautiful white ao dai (traditional Vietnamese dress), marvels at her surroundings.

Hai's encounter by owning Kien An occurs as ridicule of the american embrace of "convenience". Kien An's flowers, h&-picked and rattling, come existence caused out by mass-produced thin plastic flowers. Hai comments that it is possibly sprayed by having perfume to imitate a smell. A simply difference is that a thin plastic flowers never wilt & die. Hai wants there is no a share therein & asks Kien An for ii. Kien An respects him & gives him a lotus free of charge.

Kien An's tale involves various portable tragedies you said it poetry might triumph & provide respite for the mortal soul. Teacher Dao is particularly interested inside Kien An's song because it reminds him of his times as a little son (after he was "light and pure") along a flow of any stream markets. Teacher Dao too tells Kien An of the revenant dream. He dreams of existence suspire to visit a flow of any stream markets & drop white lotuses, allowing the babies float downriver.

Kien An remarks that Teacher Dao's infliction involves his inability to leave a on the face of it abandoned temple. Teacher Dao corrects her & says that possibly though he never leaves a place, within spirit, he yearns for a songs of a birds, the scent of the lotus, & the freedom of the clouds that lazily float in the sky. Within his prime, he was the successful poet. Fallowing losing his fingers to leprosy, Teacher Dao had given higher hope of ever writing once more. Kien An wants to help him and then she promises to lend him her fingers. Now and again, Kien An would visit his zero in a temple to copy whatever the poet recites.

Shortly, health problem when a symptom of age & hansen's disease will require away a poet's life. Huy (Phat Trieu Hoang), Teacher Dao's headman, carries out one of his final wishes & gives Kien An Dao's poetry book, which contains the never-prior to seen picture of Dao. Them remarks that he was super handsome prior to hansen's disease overtaken him. Kien An asks Huy for support to produce a late Dao's dream came admittedly. She visits a flow of any stream market & drops lotus flowers, good such as inside Dao's dream.

James Hager's story is less efficacious because it has been done many days it used to be that. He is an U.s. G.I. who returns to Vietnam to look for his daughter, in hopes of "coming to peace with this place". Hai & his pal jokingly say that Hager probably misplaced two or three screws around his head. It witness him sitting before of a hotel for weeks, smoking, staring at the eating place through the street. It observe him by having curiosity however never approach him. His story terminates using him meeting his girl. He gives her the bundle of lotus he has bought from either Kien An & endeavor to talk by owning her.

Across these intertwining tales, Tony Bui is breathe to portray the struggles of a vanishing culture. Kien An is a united states's old shipway, residing when whenever untouched by instance. Lan is a united states's present, re-inventing herself & hoping to embrace a capitalist invasion. Hai (a cyclo driver) acts as a bridge between a past & a present, dwelling care-yours free! eventually researching a "improvements" of westernisation by using the silent gall. Woody, a immature peddler, acts when a united states's new, naïve, inexperienced person, & easy fooled. Woody's story finishes sustaining him swimming association football by having his friends in the rain.

Criticisms
3 Seasons has been said to become on top-romanticized & unrealistic. Moreover, the few critics argue a film lacks a breadth & substance potential within a drama. But then, a 12 of honour seem to disagree. It`s cinematography is breathtaking & was singled retired for an award. 3 Seasons received a standing ovation when its public showing at the Sundance Film Festival.

Advocates of a film point out that the film should become taken as a fable. When foreign when it looks to american viewers, such conditions & worse run survive within Ho Chi Minh City.

Cast
Sequentially of appearance (major characters): Ngoc Hiep Nguyen - Kien An Phat Trieu Hoang - Huy, Teacher Dao's headman Don Duong - Hai Huu Duoc Nguyen - Woody Harvey Keitel - James Hager Zoe Bui - Lan Manh Cuong Tran - Dao

Awards and Accolades
Berlin International Film Festival
Golden Berlin Bear (1999), nominated Golden Satellite Awards
Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language (2000), won Golden Trailer Awards
Best Foreign (1999), won Independent Spirit Awards
Best Motion-picture photography (2000), won (Lisa Rinzler) Best Number one Feature (2000), nominated Political Film Society, USA
PFS Award (2000), nominated Portland International Film Festival
Best Foremost Film (1999), won

Stockholm Film Festival
Bronze Horse (1999), nominated

Sundance Film Festival
Audience Award (1999), won Cinematography Award (1999), won Grand Jury Prize (1999), won

Trivia
a number 1 U.s. film to become processed inside Vietnam fallowing Bill Clinton lifted the trade embargo. A filmmakers were followed by Vietnamese inspectors throughout cinematography. a film received the standing ovation when its public showing at the Sundance Film Festival.