Blue Bayou (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by Justin Chon and starring Justin Chon, Alicia Vikander, Mark O’Brien, Linh Dan Pham, Sydney Kowalske, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Emory Cohen, Geraldine ...

Blue Bayou premieres in theaters on Sept. 17, 2021. Immigration stories told on film are almost always emotional wringers. Even if the person arrives in their new country with relative ease and no ...

Filmmaker Justin Chon has built an impressive oeuvre over the past six years. An actor who broke out in the “Twilight” franchise, he has since dedicated his craft to writing and directing ...

In Blue Bayou, Kathy (Alicia Vikander), Jessie (Sydney Kowalske) and Antonio (Justin Chon) face an uncertain future when Antonio becomes threatened with deportation. Blue Bayou moved me a lot more ...

From the director of acclaimed independent films “Gook” and “Ms. Purple,” “Blue Bayou,” tells the story of a uniquely American family, faced with a devastating dilemma. Justin Chon directs, wrote and ...

Sean Baker‘s “Red Rocket” won a pair of prizes at the 47th Deauville American Film Festival where “Blue Bayou,” “Down With the King,” “Pleasure” and “John and the Hole” also picked up awards during ...

The well-intentioned but emotionally overwrought "Blue Bayou" takes an underexplored issue — the deportation of immigrant adoptees — and lays the melodrama on so thick that it's suffocating to the ...

Justin Chon seeks to create conversation and awareness around the complex and sobering realities of immigration in the United States with his Blue Bayou. “I thought it was so cruel and just ...

As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, his past resurfaces and he discovers he may be deported from the only country he calls home. Jul 14, ...