The Third Wife

Product Description In 19th 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. Bonus features include Director's Commentary, short film Grasshopper, directed by Ash Mayfair, and NYAFF Chat interview with director Ash Mayfair. Review WINNER- NETPAC Award - Toronto Int'l. Film Festival WINNER- TVE - Another Look Award - San Sebastian Film Festival WINNER- Gold Hugo, New Director's Competition - Chicago Int'l. Film Festival WINNER- Best Film - Kolkata Int'l. Film Festival WINNER - Special Jury Award - Minsk Int'l. Film Festival NOMINATED - Emerging Filmmaker Award - Hawaii Int'l. Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Busan Int'l. Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Vancouver Int'l. Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Denver Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Virginia Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - San Diego Asian Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Palm Springs Int'l. Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Santa Barbara Int'l. Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Outfest Fusion --- [A] finespun debut feature...The sensuality that Mayfair and Chananun Chotrungroj, the director of photography, create around May is seductive, and also unnerving. - A.O. Scott, The New York Times ...aesthetically entrancing...sensitively poetic... - Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter Ash Mayfair's supremely atmospheric feature debut explores repressed desires against the resplendent but emotionally suffocating landscape of late-19th century rural Vietnam. Telling the story of a young girl who enters an arranged marriage to a landowner, The Third Wife echoes the ravishing art-house triumphs of Tran Anh Hung, who serves here as an artistic advisor , while his wife and frequent collaborator Tran Nu Yen Khe plays one of the principal roles. Yet Mayfair acquits herself in such confident fashion that her sensuously elegant drama isn't at all hindered by the inevitable comparisons. - John Berra, Screen Daily Debut director Ash Mayfair delivers a gorgeously intimate, evocative, and melancholy story of female subjugation in 19th-century Vietnam. [B]y focusing with unw