The Third Wife

2018 [VIETNAMESE]

Action / Drama

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 66% · 50 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 66% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 2472 2.5K

arranged marriage teenage girl woman director 19th century landowner vietnamese woman

Plot summary

Though only 14 years old, May is selected to be the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Her new home seems idyllic, her husband favours her, and she quickly becomes pregnant with what she is certain will be the desired male progeny. But trouble is quietly brewing: she witnesses a forbidden tryst that will spark a chain reaction of misfortunes — and stir in May urges that until now had been dormant.

Director

Ash Mayfair Photo
Ash Mayfair

Top cast

Mai Cát Vi Photo
Mai Cát Vi as Nhan / Hung's daughter
Nu Yên-Khê Tran Photo
Nu Yên-Khê Tran as Ha
Long Le Vu Photo
Long Le Vu as Hung / landowner
Maya Photo
Maya as Xuan
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
849.34 MB
1074*720
Vietnamese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 3
1.7 GB
1612*1080
Vietnamese 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Ladiloque 7 / 10

Hardly memorable

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.
Reviewed by christopher-underwood 6 / 10

Beautiful but harrowing.

This is well shot and very pretty with glorious distant vistas and plant and insect close-ups. The pace is slow and although the depiction of 19th century Vietnamese rural life picturesque enough there is an awfulness here from start to finish. Unfortunately we are too familiar with tales from China and the Far East and Asia generally even today of the problems caused by favouring the birth of boys over girls to be particularly surprised by the extent of the awfulness depicted here. Yes, it is dreadful but this seems almost prurient in its constant close-ups of very young girls being displayed for very old men and that despite everything, the torture, the killing and the suicides that all is for the best. Beautiful but harrowing.
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