birck What I love about this film is that it presents the country-Vietnam- in all its glory, warts and all, and makes it a thing of beauty, even when the subject matter is an unscripted night game of pickup street soccer in a poor section of the city. In the rain. The photography and composition are masterful, the pacing is languid, the script is minimal, and what's on screen looks absolutely authentic. It looks as if it were filmed completely on location in Saigon, without sets. Each of the four stories (The American, Woody, Lan, and Teacher Dao) is resolved in a way that it would be resolved only in Vietnam, and the strongest story (in my humble), the story of the dying teacher and the flower-seller, could have taken place centuries ago. I think the film does a great job of showing the viewer layers of Vietnamese culture, of which The American's story, although just as gut-wrenching as the others, is only the latest.

nguyen1215 Three separate stories converge in this movie set in modern-day Vietnam. My favorite story was Woody's, a young child forced to sell watches and lighters out of a briefcase to survive. As a Vietnamese-American, I was eager to see the first movie filmed in post-war Vietnam. It was refreshing to see a film about the nation that didn't focus on the war, a flaw found in too many American-made pictures. Overall, I think that Three Seasons was entertaining and touching, with artful direction by Tony Bui.

beegwally What an awesome movie, the description said it was a visual treat and they were right, a beautiful movie. The story was really good as well, the cyclo driver dude was a pretty spiritually fit guy who accepted his lot in life. If you have surround sound there are a lot of ambient sounds in this movie which helped make it awesome, rain, thunder, street sounds. I hate subtitles but this movie creates a paradox for me, I can never again say I won't watch a movie with subtitles. Rent it you will see.

doreimon i was not really into art films had not my anthro class required me to watch the film Three Seasons. Initial impression: Subtle, Asian version of Magnolia. Although Magnolia gave a hard stroke on American life and beauty by presenting brutish and twisted lives of different people, Three Seasons was softer and was more focused on redemption and search for contentment and happiness in life through a plain yet colorful lives of different Vietnamese and an American. The pictures were astonishing and moving--you feel what you see and it was such an enigma to evoke such essence of a story without flooding the whole of the movie with rhetorical lines and words. the enigma i felt was the same when i watched Magnolia but i think i love this movie more than it. Three Seasons did not have enough words but the pictures were really great. i personally love the song of Kien An and the petal shower before the story ends--they were so impressing. The biggest lesson i got in the story is that dreams somehow and someday will come true, our search for happiness and contentment will end in a different way we intended. i have to thank my anthro professor, i have to thank Three Seasons. ;-)