I Come with the Rain

Hong Kong, Ireland, France

2008

114 Min

Color

2.35:1

English

Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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EXEC Simon Fawcett, Julie LeBrocquy, Alvaro Longoria

PROD Jean Cazes, Jean-Pierre Marois, Fernando Sulichin

CAST Josh Hartnett, Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Lee Byung-hun, Takuya Kimura, Shawn Yue, Elias Koteas, Jo Kuk

Kline, an ex-cop in Los Angeles traumatized by slaying a serial killer, is hired by a powerful corporate boss to go to the Philippines and find Shitao, his missing son. Kline’s leads take him to Hong Kong. Torn between good and evil, caught in the crossfire between a mafia drug ring and the police, he tracks down Shitao, who has become a mysterious vagrant.

Shot on state-of-the-art HD and featuring music by Radiohead, this modern thriller explores the fine line between carnal passion and violence and plunges us into an exotic urban world of gritty realism and sensual beauty.

Director

Tran Anh Hung

Trần Anh Hùng (born December 23, 1962) is a French film director of Vietnamese ancestry.

He was born in Đà Nẵng, Central Vietnam, and emigrated to France when he was 12 following the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.
Being exposed to and loving classic films, Tran indicated the immense effect they had upon spurring his film-making desires. Admittedly, Bergman, Tarkovsky and Kurosawa all had a hand in the evolution of his directorial aspirations.

His Oscar-nominated debut (for Best Foreign Film) was with the The Scent of Green Papaya (1993) which also won two top prizes at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, and his followup Cyclo (1995) featured top Hong Kong movie star Tony Leung Chiu Wai, also eventually nabbing a top prize at the Venice International Film Festival. The Vertical Ray of the Sun, released in 2000, was the third film in what many consider now to be his “Vietnam trilogy.”

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