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In "Blue Bayou," Chon is Antonio, a tattoo artist with a criminal record and family, two things that he carries around with him to every job interview or destination that may create a better life ...

From a distance, Justin Chon’s “Blue Bayou” seems to be a movie that would warrant comparison to Lee Isaac Chung’s Oscar-nominated “Minari” – the story of a young Korean man and his ...

But “Blue Bayou,” which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, isn’t a quiet, artful character study the way “Minari” was.

The closest recent comparison one could make to Blue Bayou would be Minari, the Oscar-winning Sundance favorite about a Korean family trying to make a go of it in the rural U.S.

Blue Bayou The Bottom Line Messy gumbo but not without flavor. Release date: Friday, Sept. 17 Venue: Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard) ...

Soon after that film opened, production began on “Blue Bayou,” the story of Antonio LeBlanc, a New Orleans man (played by Chon himself) adopted from South Korea by a white American couple as a ...

From award-winning writer/director Justin Chon [Gook], Blue Bayou is the moving and timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. Antonio LeBlanc [Chon], a Korean adoptee ...

So let’s see if it can stay in the race. “Blue Bayou” is produced by Poppy Hanks, Charles D. King and Kim Roth. The film opens on Sept. 17 in theaters.

So let’s see if it can stay in the race. “Blue Bayou” is produced by Poppy Hanks, Charles D. King and Kim Roth. The film opens on Sept. 17 in theaters.