The Buffalo Boy
Global Film Initiative | Release Date: March 11, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 4 Critic Reviews
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The New York TimesManohla Dargis
One of the strengths of Mr. Nguyen-Vo's film is that despite the overwhelming physical beauty of the landscape and the simplicity of his characters, he doesn't succumb to such aerated thinking. The world in Buffalo Boy" is filled with wonder, but it is a world also filled with real desire, real death, not abstractions. Read full review
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Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
The elegiac tone here isn't set just by nostalgia for a vanished lifestyle: bereavement, lost love, and the ever present floodwaters add poignancy to the elliptical story, whose characters float in and out unbidden, and sometimes unexplained. Read full review
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VarietyDerek Elley
Sports a stronger narrative spine than is usual in Vietnamese rural dramas and a less fragile tone in its deployment of landscape and character. Read full review
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TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Despite the exotic locale, this is a coming-of-age tale that should be familiar to anyone raised on the tales of Jack London or Robert Louis Stevenson. Read full review
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