★★★★★
“Five years, one motorbike, zero brakes. The most alive the programme ever feels.”
The Saigon Morning Traffic
Seat 34F
Centrepiece✂ Director’s Cut
The Saigon Kiss
Ho Chi Minh City
Rating
R
Runtime
on & off, five years
Year
2018–2022
Genre
Coming-of-age
The rare feature where the lead genuinely comes of age on screen. Devastating soundtrack of scooter horns.
★★★★★The Saigon Morning TrafficThe Management
Synopsis
Sandra flies to Saigon to teach English and Spanish and ends up staying five years, on and off. The actual education happens on the motorbike she rides to work every single day, through traffic that never brakes for anyone. It is also very, very hot.
This is where she grows up. She works out who she is in every sense of the phrase, makes the friends she'll later cross the world to see, falls in love, and tries a few things the film tastefully cuts away from. She also collects the burn on her calf that names the picture: the Saigon kiss, the mark every rider eventually takes off a hot exhaust pipe. Her favourite place on earth. Most of who she is was built here.
✺ Official Tie-In ✺
Ho Chi Run
The arcade adaptation. The traffic from the film, now coming directly at you. See how long you last on the roads the lead rode for five years.
Insert coinWhat the Critics Say
★★★★½
“Half a star off for the humidity. Otherwise perfect.”
The Saigon Morning Traffic
A Frequent Flyer
Fine
She came to teach. The city taught back.
The programme continues
