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4 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisOne of the strengths of Mr. Nguyen-Vo's film is that despite the overwhelming physical beauty of the landscape and the simplicity of his characters, he doesn't succumb to such aerated thinking. The world in Buffalo Boy" is filled with wonder, but it is a world also filled with real desire, real death, not abstractions.
- 70Chicago ReaderAndrea GronvallChicago ReaderAndrea GronvallThe elegiac tone here isn't set just by nostalgia for a vanished lifestyle: bereavement, lost love, and the ever present floodwaters add poignancy to the elliptical story, whose characters float in and out unbidden, and sometimes unexplained.
- 70VarietyDerek ElleyVarietyDerek ElleySports a stronger narrative spine than is usual in Vietnamese rural dramas and a less fragile tone in its deployment of landscape and character.