lucky lu
DIRECTOR: Lloyd Lee Choi
102 MINS, usa, canada, 2025, SUBTITLED
Official Selection, Director’s Fortnight, Cannes International Film Festival 2025
The screening will be introduced by journalist and film critic Tara Brady.
Korean-Canadian filmmaker Lloyd Lee Choi’s vivid directorial debut follows the tense 48 hours in the life of Lu, a New York food-delivery driver. When his e-bike is stolen hours before his wife Si Yu and young daughter Yaya (breakout Carabelle Manna Wei) arrive from Taipei after years apart, Lu must race against time to recover his bike and keep the new apartment he has secured for his family. A pulsating exploration of the precarity and daily struggle of the fractured immigrant gig-worker community in New York, shot in Manhattan's Chinatown and Lower East Side, the film echoes neorealist classic Bicycle Thieves, Sean Baker's Take Out, and the recent Souleymane's Story.
NOTES BY MARIE-PIERRE RICHARD
