Xích lô (1996)

Title: Cyclo

Original Title: Xích lô

Release Date: 1996-03-22

Status: Released

Rating: 6.982/10 (from 109 votes)

Language: VI

Genres: Drama, Crime

Production Companies: Cofimage 5, Les Productions Lazennec, SFP, Lumière, La Sept Cinéma, Cofimage 6, Giai Phong Film Studio, CNC, Canal+, Salon Films

Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.