The fourth feature from writer-director Bui Thac Chuyen ('Adrift') premiered in the Tokyo Film Festival’s main competition.
Three women living in a small village on the Mekong Delta struggle to contend with the men they’re bound up with in, a thoughtful if somewhat heavy-handed ensemble piece from Vietnamese writer-director Bui Thac Chuyen .
Premiering in competition at Tokyo, the film provides an intriguing look at a part of the world where the old ways, whether in farming, fishing or wives being completely subjected to their husbands’ every last whim, still dominate daily life. But the two-hour drama never quite rises above its earnest and weighty message, which makes it more of a thoughtful pedagogical item than a movie with serious market potential.