69
Metascore
14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83IndieWireRyan LattanzioIndieWireRyan LattanzioThis is a gentle and joyous film not to be slept on, even as its low-key aura lulls you into a soothed state of mind.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt is about a homecoming that isn’t quite a homecoming, a reckoning with something not exactly there, an attempted reconciliation with people and places that can’t really be negotiated with.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijThe Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijAs he did in Lilting, Khaou in Monsoon finely sketches the complex inner lives and identities of a small group of characters and plugs them into a narrative that unfolds gradually but precisely, so audiences have the time to consider the work's larger thematic concerns.
- 70Screen DailyDemetrios MatheouScreen DailyDemetrios MatheouThe journey is definitely worth making, as both people and places lead Kit slowly towards some sort of rapprochement with his identity.
- 70VarietyJessica KiangVarietyJessica KiangMonsoon is a graceful and truthfully irresolute investigation into the strange, often poignantly unreciprocated relationship that many first- and second-generation emigrants have with the far-off foreign country of the past.
- 67Austin ChronicleSteve DavisAustin ChronicleSteve DavisAs Monsoon unhurriedly paces towards an open-ended conclusion, you sense Kit will be in a better place than the one he occupied when he first stepped off the plane.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisSan Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisMonsoon, an offbeat story about a man’s cultural dislocation in Vietnam, is more of a slow drip than a torrential downpour. It’s a lovely film that suddenly and magically can wash over you, then lose you in its opacities.