An official selection of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival from award-winning writer/director Justin Chon (Ms. Purple, Gook), Blue Bayou is the moving and timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. Antonio LeBlanc (Chon), a Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, is married to the love of his life Kathy (Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina, The Danish Girl) and step-dad to their beloved daughter Jessie (Sydney Kowalske). Struggling to make a better life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past when he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.
Landmark Presents an Exclusive Filmmaker Letter from writer/director/actor Justin Chon.