Director Justin Chon stars opposite Alicia Vikander in this drama about a Korean-born adoptee raised in Louisiana, fighting to keep his family together as he faces deportation. By David Rooney Chief ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

"Are we getting kicked out?" "Nah, baby girl, I ain't going nowhere..." Focus Features has unveiled the first official trailer for Blue Bayou, the latest film from acclaimed Korean-American filmmaker ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chon's film is stylistically overwrought and narratively overstuffed, but rests on his affecting performance as a New Orleans Korean American facing deportation. To New Orleans family man Antonio ...

This review of “Blue Bayou” was first published after the film’s premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. From a distance, Justin Chon’s “Blue Bayou” seems to be a movie that would warrant ...

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 ...

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 ...

(L to R) Sydney Kowalske as “Jessie”, Justin Chon as “Antonio” and Alicia Vikander as “Kathy” in BLUE BAYOU, a Focus Features release. Photo credit: Focus Features. Courtesy of Focus Features Is it ...