In theaters on September 15 after a visit to Deauville where he won the Audience Award, “Blue Bayou” features a man who risks being expelled from the country where he has always lived. We met Linh-Dan Pham who tells us about this moving film. Video in one article.
Moving Blue bayou
In Blue bayou, Antonio, a man of Korean descent, learns overnight that he risks being deported. However, he has lived on American soil for more than thirty years after being adopted as a child. He is married to Kathy (Alicia Vikander), is expecting a child with her, and does what he can to provide for his family. Together, they will have to fight so that he can stay in this country by proving that he is “useful to society”. During his difficult journey, he meets Parker (Linh-Dan Pham), a woman of Vietnamese origin who will help him reconnect with his roots.
Blue bayou is a very moving film. Almost too much. Throughout the feature film, difficulties are linked and accumulate for Antonio. And this until a shocking finale. A film that touches and for which we easily leave a few tears (see our review).
A personal film for Justin Chon and Linh-Dan Pham
Directed by Justin Chon, Blue bayou is an independent film so it was shot in a few days. Present at the Deauville festival (where the film won the Audience Award), we met Linh-Dan Pham so that she can tell us about this experience. She evokes with us this desire of the filmmaker to represent asian characters and all the communities present in America, and how it fits there in this story. The actress having arrived in France at the age of one year.
“There are affinities with Parker. She arrived in the United States, not so young than me, but she is therefore what they call the second wave of immigration. In my family, they wanted me to keep my mother tongue. So we spoke Vietnamese at home, and at school I spoke French.“
It also evokes an intense shoot, linked in part to the fact that Justin Chon is both in front of and behind the camera, as well as his meeting short but striking by Alicia Vikander.
The interview is to be discovered in video in one article. Blue bayou is to see in theaters September 15th.
