Buffalo Boy - Film June 25, 2009

Buffalo Boy - Film (Vietnamese / 2004). Directed by Nguyen-Vo Nghiem-Minh. An oblique coming-of-ager, set in French-occupied Vietnam. Based on a collection of short stories by a native of the region, this film is set in the southernmost part of Vietnam, where the lowlands elide into the sea. For six months of the year, during the rainy season, the area is heavily flooded, forcing inhabitants to take their water buffaloes to higher ground for pasture. In a first test of his adulthood, 15-year-old Kim (Le The Lu) gets permission from his aged father, Dinh (Nguyen Huu Thanh) to take the struggling family's two precious animals upcountry on his own. The perilous, realistically filmed journey, fraught with conflicts between rival herdsmen and the death of some animals, sees him falling in with Lap (Vo Hoang Nhan), the buccaneering head of a large herd. As part of Look East! Contemporary Cinema from Asia - Film Festival.

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