The Third Wife

Director: Ash Mayfair

Country: Vietnam

Year: 2018

Running Time: 94 minutes

Producer: Trần Thị Bích Ngọc, Ash Mayfair

Executive Producer: Dang Thanh Tam, Dang Thi Hoang Yen

Starring: Nguyễn Hồng Chương, Long Le Vu, Mai Thu Huong Maya, Nguyen Phuong Tra My, Nhu Quynh Nguyen, Nguyen Thanh Tam,Lam Thanh My, Nu Yên-Khê Tran

Screenplay: Ash Mayfair

Cinematographer: Chananun Chotrungroj

Editor: Julie Béziau

Music: An Ton That

Sound: Roman Dymny, Edouard Morin

Production Design: Tôn Thất An

Synopsis:

In the nineteenth-century rural Vietnam, 14-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.