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Cannes Review: ‘Blue Bayou’

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Artless, unconversant with nuance or subtlety and fond of hitting every nail right on the head, Blue Bayou nonetheless gets to the nitty-gritty and some of the most vexing emotional issues surrounding immigration.

As contrived and ham-fisted as it may be much of the time, this Universal/Focus Features Un Certain Regard entry triggered one of strongest audience reactions seen this year in Cannes, so there could be some hungry young viewers out there waiting for just such topically-themed and just-different-enough melodrama.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.

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