Cyclo

Christopher Wise/The Wall Street Journal Henri Tran Anh Dung returned to Vietnam from France in the early 1990s to work on his brother Tran Anh Hung's film "Cyclo" -- which would go on to win the top prize at the Venice Film Festival -- and stayed to found a company that makes advertising and corporate films.

Raising the Bar 2008

La Marmotte is just one race in a popular series of races in Europe, called Cyclo-Sportif.

PezCyclingNews.com 2009

La Marmotte is just one race in a popular series of races in Europe, called Cyclo-Sportif.

PezCyclingNews.com 2009

The two best-known Vietnamese composers, Ton That Tiet and Nguyen Thien Dao moved to Paris where they studied modern music; Mr. Dao as a disciple of Olivier Messiaen, Mr. Tiet gaining notoriety as the composer of highly original scores for films such as "Cyclo" and "The Scent of Green Papaya."

A Musical Homecoming in Hanoi Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2010

The two best-known Vietnamese composers, Ton That Tiet and Nguyen Thien Dao moved to Paris where they studied modern music; Mr. Dao as a disciple of Olivier Messiaen, Mr. Tiet gaining notoriety as the composer of highly original scores for films such as "Cyclo" and "The Scent of Green Papaya."

A Musical Homecoming in Hanoi Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2010

The two best-known Vietnamese composers, Ton That Tiet and Nguyen Thien Dao moved to Paris where they studied modern music; Mr. Dao as a disciple of Olivier Messiaen, Mr. Tiet gaining notoriety as the composer of highly original scores for films such as "Cyclo" and "The Scent of Green Papaya."

A Musical Homecoming in Hanoi Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2010

In the early 1990s, he moved to Vietnam, to work on "Cyclo," a film directed by his brother Tran Anh Hung, who had received an Oscar nomination for "The Scent of Green Papaya," a sensual and melancholy tale of a young peasant girl who takes comfort from the preparation of food.

Coming Home 2008

After the success of "Cyclo," a film about a poor Saigon bicycle-taxi driver, Mr. Dung set up a Vietnam-based movie production house.

Coming Home 2008

Tran surprised everyone more than a decade ago with "Cyclo," a violent descent into criminal hell by a Saigon bicycle-taxi driver; "Rain" has the same theme and ambience, but this time injected into a story with no redeeming artistry or even basic storytelling smarts.

Variety.com 2009

To get to the market we jumped on a "Cyclo" which is a pedal power tuk tuk, we felt very vunerable driving along at 2mph with buses and bikes whizzing past us, the driver was a cheerful chap and laughed the whole way round.

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