Stars: Zita Bai, Boni Mata, Vas Provatakis, Helen Sun | Written by Zita Bai | Directed by Jesse Dvorak
If a movie’s description has ‘coming-of-age’ written in it, I will nearly always be giving it a watch. And as you’ve probably guessed, that was exactly what I read about Baby, Don’t Cry. The Fantasia website also mentioned John Hughes so I couldn’t not watch it.
But Baby, Don’t Cry is a very different kind of coming-of-age story. It’s both strange and fantastical, and gritty and harsh. Blending all kinds of emotions and styles into one twisted story. Written by its lead actor Zita Bai who plays Baby, a seventeen year old girl living on the outskirts of Seattle. The Chinese immigrant has a difficult home life and meets ‘Fox’, a twenty year old whose life is just as pained as hers. They start a relationship that...
If a movie’s description has ‘coming-of-age’ written in it, I will nearly always be giving it a watch. And as you’ve probably guessed, that was exactly what I read about Baby, Don’t Cry. The Fantasia website also mentioned John Hughes so I couldn’t not watch it.
But Baby, Don’t Cry is a very different kind of coming-of-age story. It’s both strange and fantastical, and gritty and harsh. Blending all kinds of emotions and styles into one twisted story. Written by its lead actor Zita Bai who plays Baby, a seventeen year old girl living on the outskirts of Seattle. The Chinese immigrant has a difficult home life and meets ‘Fox’, a twenty year old whose life is just as pained as hers. They start a relationship that...
- 8/27/2021
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
Baby (Zita Bai) is a seventeen-year-old Chinese immigrant surviving on the fringes of her community. She’s a voyeur—always with camera on to capture the dialogue and actions of others so she can better mimic how to act and “fit in.” That she also photographs animal carcasses and death with excitement might make that sort of assimilation tough, but she’s not really interested in those that would dismiss such a thing without context. It’s not until she meets Fox (Vas Provatakis) that Baby finally sees someone worth the effort to let the full breadth of her eccentricity become visible. He’s a drug dealer who parties hard, has zero respect for anyone around him, yet finds himself enamored by her singular mystique.
Director Jesse Dvorak says he wanted to bring his coming-of-age filmmaking sensibilities to the unique immigrant experience written by Bai herself. And that goal does...
Director Jesse Dvorak says he wanted to bring his coming-of-age filmmaking sensibilities to the unique immigrant experience written by Bai herself. And that goal does...
- 8/23/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Scripted, acted and designed by Chinese immigrant Zita Bai, “Baby, Don’t Cry” is a different coming-of-age film that focuses on the marginalized of Seattle, without necessarily providing a message of hope, in an approach that allows it to stand as far out from the plethora of sugar-coated, romantic teenage films as possible.
“Baby Don’t Cry” is screening at Fantasia International Film Festival
Baby is a 17-year-old Chinese immigrant who dreams of becoming a filmmaker one day and moving to Los Angeles. However, her life is not exactly paving her way, since she is completely marginalized in school, her mother seems to suffer from some sort of mental illness, which frequently makes her abusive towards her daughter, while she also has to clean houses in order to make a living. Her only solace is constantly recording with her phone everything she finds interesting, a fixation on dead things, and occasionally the world of dreams.
“Baby Don’t Cry” is screening at Fantasia International Film Festival
Baby is a 17-year-old Chinese immigrant who dreams of becoming a filmmaker one day and moving to Los Angeles. However, her life is not exactly paving her way, since she is completely marginalized in school, her mother seems to suffer from some sort of mental illness, which frequently makes her abusive towards her daughter, while she also has to clean houses in order to make a living. Her only solace is constantly recording with her phone everything she finds interesting, a fixation on dead things, and occasionally the world of dreams.
- 8/15/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
When Baby (Zita Bai) first meets Fox (Vas Provatakis), she knows that he has stolen her camera. She’s a delicately built 17-year-old schoolgirl. He’s a dropout, significantly bigger than her, used to a much rougher lifestyle. Nevertheless, she fights him. She may lack strength but she has no shortage of courage or fierceness. She wins his respect and makes it clear to viewers that no matter how it may look on the surface, her life has not been an easy one.
Characters like Baby are rarely seen on the big screen, and still more rarely in the foreground, driving the narrative. She’s a Chinese immigrant, still not wholly confident in English, and the camera is important to her because it provides her with a means of self expression. Fox, however, provides something different. The two embark on a passionate affair which brings her into contact with aspects of the world she.
Characters like Baby are rarely seen on the big screen, and still more rarely in the foreground, driving the narrative. She’s a Chinese immigrant, still not wholly confident in English, and the camera is important to her because it provides her with a means of self expression. Fox, however, provides something different. The two embark on a passionate affair which brings her into contact with aspects of the world she.
- 8/11/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Incorporating a universal and visceral human experience into a film’s story that also highlights the unique perspective of immigrants in their new country can often inspire a commanding emotional response from the audience. That’s certainly the case with the new romantic crime thriller, ‘Baby, Don’t Cry,’ which also gives an enthralling depth to the psychological […]
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- 8/11/2021
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Baby, Don't Cry
Baby (Zita Bai) is a Chinese immigrant with a troubled home life, living on the outskirts of Seattle. Fox (Vas Provatakis) is a young delinquent who steals from her only to be charmed by her fighting spirit. Their passionate affair turns everything upside down. Screening as part of 2021’s Fantasia International Film Festival, Baby, Don’t Cry! is a small but impactful film which presents an outsider’s view of US culture and charts a young woman’s sexual and spiritual journey into adulthood.
Zita, who wrote the film herself – it was directed by Jesse Dvorak – agreed to meet shortly before the festival to talk about the film. Her co-star Vas and producer Qiyu Zhou joined us, and I began by asking Zita about the roots of the story.
“I think that goes back to a lot of how I was growing up in America as an immigrant,...
Baby (Zita Bai) is a Chinese immigrant with a troubled home life, living on the outskirts of Seattle. Fox (Vas Provatakis) is a young delinquent who steals from her only to be charmed by her fighting spirit. Their passionate affair turns everything upside down. Screening as part of 2021’s Fantasia International Film Festival, Baby, Don’t Cry! is a small but impactful film which presents an outsider’s view of US culture and charts a young woman’s sexual and spiritual journey into adulthood.
Zita, who wrote the film herself – it was directed by Jesse Dvorak – agreed to meet shortly before the festival to talk about the film. Her co-star Vas and producer Qiyu Zhou joined us, and I began by asking Zita about the roots of the story.
“I think that goes back to a lot of how I was growing up in America as an immigrant,...
- 8/7/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Baby Don't Cry: Exclusive Clip From Zita Bai's Crime Thriller, World Premiere at Fantasia Next Month
Hot on the heels of today's final wave announcement for Fantasia we have an exclusive clip to share with you from one of those films, the crime thriller Baby Don't Cry. Check it out down below, with a small selection of stills as well. Baby, a withdrawn and sensitive 17-year-old Chinese immigrant from a troubled home, is living in the outskirts of Seattle. One day, she meets a 20-year-old delinquent named Fox. Together they embark on a twisted journey to escape their hopeless fate. Jesse Dvorak directs a script by actress and filmmaker Zita Bai, who produced with Zeron Zhao and Qiyu Zhou, and stars in the film alongside Vas Provatakis. Baby Don't Cry will have its world premiere during the Fantasia...
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- 7/21/2021
- Screen Anarchy
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