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Lloyd Lee Choi Explores Working Class Struggles in ‘Lucky Lu’
Lloyd Lee Choi explores working class struggles in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight feature ’Lucky Lu'.
Another transformative moment for Choi was randomly finding Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund’s Brazilian drama “City of God.” Like “Lucky Lu” and his fave filmmakers, the Dardenne brothers, it explores the lives of the working class and “people on the fringes” of society. It all informed Choi’s portrait of Lu (played by 2018 Cannes juror Chang Chen), a New York City immigrant whose fragile existence as a deliveryman falls apart when his e-bike is stolen. “Lucky” begs comparison to Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 Italian neorealistic drama “The Bicycle Thief” with its pathos, suspense, a few shared plot points and sentimental moments in its protagonist’s relationship with his young child.
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