The third wife
In nineteenth-century rural Vietnam, fourteen-year-old May becomes the third wife of wealthy landowner Hung. Soon, she learns that she can only gain status by asserting herself as a woman who can give birth to a male child. May's hope to change her status turns into a real and tantalizing possibilit...
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| Format: | Videos DVD |
| Language: | Vietnamese English |
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New York, NY :
Film Movement,
[2019]
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| Summary: | In nineteenth-century rural Vietnam, fourteen-year-old May becomes the third wife of wealthy landowner Hung. Soon, she learns that she can only gain status by asserting herself as a woman who can give birth to a male child. May's hope to change her status turns into a real and tantalizing possibility when she gets pregnant. Faced with forbidden love and its devastating consequences, May finally comes to an understanding of the brutal truth: the options available to her are few and far between. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2018. Special features include: Director's commentary; NYAFF chat with Ash Mayfair; short film, Grasshopper. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time: | 00:90:06 |
| Format: | DVD, 1.49:1 aspect ratio, all regions, NTSC; 5.1 surround sound or 2.0 stereo. |
| Audience: | Rating: R; for sexual content. |
| Production Credits: | Director of photography, Chananun Chotrungroj ; editor, Julie Béziau ; composer, Tôn Thất An. |
| ISBN: | 9781980039815 198003981X |
