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The Third Wife

2018

Ashleigh Mayfair

Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Mai Thu Hường, Nguyễn Phương Trà My, Nhu Quynh Nguyen

6.1

1,419

Drama A 14-year-old girl struggles with family politics, her own agency, and the prospect of motherhood after she becomes the third wife of a wealthy landowner, in 19th century rural Vietnam.

	Author	Review
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"A gorgeously intimate, evocative, and melancholy story (...) [It] derives its freshness not from inexperience but from a balance between compassion and restraint"	POS
United States	Neil Young The Hollywood Reporter	"An audience-friendly affair which deals with harrowing subject-matter in restrained, tactful and aesthetically entrancing style"	POS
United States	Jared Mobarak The Film Stage	"'The Third Wife's visual poetry shifts through its minimalistic progressions with pertinent information positioned at the frame’s center"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"It’s too cool for melodrama and too pretty for politics, and the drama of May’s experience occupies a middle ground between pity and indignation."	NEU
United Kingdom	John Berra Screendaily	"A finely detailed and quietly devastating tapestry where rare moments of genuine intimacy are intensely experienced"	POS
United States	Beatrice Loayza AV Club	"What’s perhaps most striking about 'The Third Wife' is Mayfair’s measured approach, rare for a debut and a young filmmaker."	POS
Australia	Jake Wilson The Age	"[A] striking drama (...) [It] is first and foremost crafted to seduce (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
Australia	Andrew Blackie FilmInk	"A promising debut"	POS
Australia	Stephanie Bunbury Sydney Morning Herald	"[It] is both grim and sensuously beautiful. Its 19th-century setting is meticulously staged"	POS

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