Presented in the official selection at the Directors' Fortnight at the last Cannes Film Festival, present in competition at Deauville,
Blue Bayou
is one of those shocking films that take by the throat.
Directed by actor-director Justin Chon
(Ms. Purple)
, this drama carried out with vigor and emotion denounces with force and emotion an absurdity unrecognized in the American adoption system, which can even lead to the expulsion from the territory of adopted children become adults.
This creeping legal vacuum is as devious as ordinary racism.
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Blue Bayou, melodrama that takes by the throat
It all starts with an informal exchange between a garage owner and the hero who has come to look for work with his 10-year-old daughter.
As he is about to become a dad, Antonio LeBlanc (Justin Chon himself), a freelance tattoo artist, is looking to change jobs.
We will never see the face of the mechanic who asks him
"where he got such a name"
and
"where he was really born"
.
The scene includes a series of micro-aggressions unfortunately typical of racism
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