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Ash Mayfair’s The Third Wife tells the story of a teenage girl whose family marries her off in nineteenth-century Vietnam. The film is now available on VOD.
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Ash Mayfair’s The Third Wife is a powerful exercise in empathy, an exquisitely beautiful film on the surface which contains one of the bleakest portrayals of how patriarchy limits women’s autonomy. In nineteenth-century Vietnam, fourteen-year-old May (Nguyễn Phương Trà My) is married off by her family as a landowner’s third wife. May has no relationship with her husband, Hung (Le Vu Long) — who has a daughter that is the same age as her — beyond his appearances in her bedroom. The other two wives, Xuan (Mai Thu Hường) and Ha (Trần Nữ Yên Khê), mentor May on sex and decorum. At first, May internalizes the idea that her “value” lies in being able to give birth to a son. When she gives birth to a daughter, instead, she begins to wonder what rebellion is even possible under a thoroughly constricting patriarchy.
The Third Wife focuses on patriarchal violence as a way of life rather than on particular individual actions. Hung is distant, but not particularly cruel. He is simply playing the role society expects of a man. The majority of what we see in the film is the women’s day to day life: doing chores and sharing jokes and tips. Mayfair and cinematographer Chananun Chotrungroj have a strong command of sharp, textured natural light. The film presents a striking contrast between the natural world May often longingly looks out towards and the murky, suffocating rooms of the male world.
Mayfair’s choice to focus on normal, everyday events rather than the viscerally terrible ones is particularly devastating because it emphasizes how May can not imagine a better life she could escape to. Instead, the older women give May tips on how to make the best of their current situation. As far as May knows, this is how life is everywhere and her only choice is to continue to live or not.
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In 19th century rural Vietnam, May is ready to become the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Little does she know that her hidden desires will force her to decide between living in safety an... Read all
In 19th century rural Vietnam, fourteen-year-old May is ready to become the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Little does she know that her hidden desires will take her by surprise and force her to make a choice between living in safety and being free.
Film debut of Nguyen Phuong Tra My, who was just 12 years old when she was initially cast as the lead character May in The Third Wife. She was chosen among 900 girls by film writer and director Ash Mayfair after a nationwide casting.
A girl in 19th Century Viet Nam.
Lots of symbols to decipher and hidden lessons to be learnt here but I guess there're too many for my tastes: if I try hard and still can't make sense of something - it's the author's fault.
This said, the film is beautifully written, shot, acted and produced (while misteriously antiseptic and eerie in the music, scenography, palette and fauna depicted).
Unfortunately the value of a movie is what I get out of it and it wasn't much: women's life in a place, at a time, in specific socio-economic circumstances (something for which history books are far better); less than a dozen of artistically worthy scenes and a bit of boredom.
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