Tag: Blue Bayou
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Justin Chon’s Encounters with Racism in Hollywood Led Him to Make Indies Like ‘Blue Bayou’
Justin Chon’s Southern-set immigration drama “Blue Bayou” has the raw feel of a ’70s movie — a freewheeling 16mm camera, intimately scaled, in-your-face human drama a la John Cassevetes — but it’s a film that could likely only be made now. That’s even in spite of the film’s exploration of longstanding, trenchant issues of immigration…
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Justin Chon And Alicia Vikander Search For The Definition Of Home In Blue Bayou [Interview]
Justin Chon has come a long way since he wowed Sundance audiences with his 2017 film “Gook.” The writer and director of “Blue Bayou” is many years removed from being “that funny Asian guy” from “Twilight” who directed and starred in the provocative black-and-white drama about two Korean-American brothers on the first day of the…