The third wife / Film Movement, Mayfair Pictures, Annam Productions and Three Colors Productions present ; Ash Mayfair, writer & director ; Trần Thị Bích Ngọc, Ash Mayfair, producers.
Trần Nữ Yên Khê, Mai Thu Hường, Nguyễn Phương Trà My, Nguyễn Như Quỷnh, Lê Vũ Long. Originally released as a motion picture in 2018. Special features include: Director's commentary; NYAFF chat with Ash Mayfair; short film, Grasshopper.
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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