Blue Bayou (2021)

Blue Bayou

Entertainment One, MACRO

Focus Features

Release date: 09/17/2021

#whatonwhatsgood Fan Club Rating: 71%

Directed by

Justin Chon

Written by

Justin Chon

Produced by

Charles D. King, Kim Roth, Poppy Hanks, Justin Chon

Starring

Justin Chon as Antonio LeBlanc

Alicia Vikander as Kathy LeBlanc

Mark O'Brien as Ace

Linh Dan Pham as Parker

Sydney Kowalske as Jessie LeBlanc

Vondie Curtis-Hall as Barry Boucher

Emory Cohen as Denny

Cinematography

Matthew Chuang, Ante Cheng

Edited by

Reynolds Barney

Music by

Roger Suen

Director Justin Chon discusses Blue Bayou

“Growing up, I’ve been friends with a lot of Korean American adoptees, and I always felt their experience being an American was so different to mine. I thought it was a side of the American experience that really wasn’t really shown in film.”

Charles D. King discusses New Orleans

"I look at New Orleans as another character in the film. The accent, the people, the culture, the music, the food—I could feel and taste that within the world that Justin painted. It’s a universal story, but it’s one that also leaned into communities in cities like New Orleans. You could tell very clearly that this was New Orleans. You have the bayou, beautiful scenes shot in the swamp lands.”

Ante Cheng discusses New Orleans

“One thing we found was just to really embrace the weather in New Orleans. It can go from sunny to overcast to raining in just one day, but that’s what’s real, and I wanted to capture it. The weather actually worked out for the film to have quite a few different looks.”