Monsoon
Strand Releasing | Release Date: November 13, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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12
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2
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Entertainment WeeklyMary SollosiNov 14, 2020
The specificity with which Khaou portrays this beautiful place, evolving beyond its traumatic history but never forgetting it entirely, is what makes Monsoon so piercing. Read full review
83
IndieWireRyan LattanzioNov 11, 2020
This is a gentle and joyous film not to be slept on, even as its low-key aura lulls you into a soothed state of mind. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijNov 11, 2020
As he did in Lilting, Khaou in Monsoon finely sketches the complex inner lives and identities of a small group of characters and plugs them into a narrative that unfolds gradually but precisely, so audiences have the time to consider the work's larger thematic concerns. Read full review
80
CineVueSara MericanNov 11, 2020
Tracing ambivalent pasts and ambiguous futures, Monsoon grows into a brooding portrait of immigrant displacement – one marked by a ceaseless yearning. Read full review
80
EmpireHanna FlintNov 11, 2020
Beautifully shot and subtly delivered, Monsoon offers a poignant picture of the emigrant experience as well as Vietnam’s post-war hangover, while cementing Henry Golding’s position as a leading man to watch. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawNov 11, 2020
It is about a homecoming that isn’t quite a homecoming, a reckoning with something not exactly there, an attempted reconciliation with people and places that can’t really be negotiated with. Read full review
72
TheWrapSteve PondDec 13, 2020
It’s a gentle journey, and a times a frustratingly uncertain one, so tentative as to almost float away beneath the often luminous images. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarNov 13, 2020
Laden with bittersweet sentiment, the film packs a muted but lasting emotional wallop. Read full review
70
Screen DailyDemetrios MatheouNov 11, 2020
The journey is definitely worth making, as both people and places lead Kit slowly towards some sort of rapprochement with his identity. Read full review
70
VarietyJessica KiangNov 11, 2020
Monsoon is a graceful and truthfully irresolute investigation into the strange, often poignantly unreciprocated relationship that many first- and second-generation emigrants have with the far-off foreign country of the past. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisNov 12, 2020
As Monsoon unhurriedly paces towards an open-ended conclusion, you sense Kit will be in a better place than the one he occupied when he first stepped off the plane. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrNov 12, 2020
A delicate, observant, and rather too quiescent drama of coming home to a strange land, Monsoon is an interesting change of pace for star Henry Golding (“Crazy Rich Asians”) and another musing on diaspora by the Cambodia-born British filmmaker Hong Khaou. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergNov 12, 2020
The ambience doesn’t register with full force, or do the heavy lifting entrusted to it. Monsoon finally tips over the line that separates minimalism from a not-fully-developed movie. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisNov 11, 2020
Monsoon, an offbeat story about a man’s cultural dislocation in Vietnam, is more of a slow drip than a torrential downpour. It’s a lovely film that suddenly and magically can wash over you, then lose you in its opacities. Read full review
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