The film won the Golden Lion at the 52nd Venice International Film Festival . It is about the hard lives of the labor force in early 1990s Ho Chi Minh City , and how people come under the influence of crime . The film is considered hard to understand because of abstracts and wordless communications . However , in a review , Janet Maslin ( 1995 ) asserted that this style , which is typical of the film director , makes the movie more memorable and successful
52nd Venice International Film Festival
52nd Venice International Film Festival
Cyclo (film)