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Tight 23-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
MoodPlayr · trivia#01
The Married Woman of Nam Xuong
1989 0h 23m VI
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6.2
MID
★6.2TMDB · 6
Drama
Synopsis
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The cinematic tale recounts the story of a woman whose husband has left for war. When night comes, she pretends to her child that the shadow projected on a sheet is his father. When the father returns, two years later, the child rejects him, telling him that his father only returns at night.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Lâm Lê
Duy Mai Lan Nguyen
Trần Anh Hùng
Trần Nữ Yên Khê
An Qiang
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Trần Anh Hùng
- Writers
- Trần Anh Hùng
- Languages
- Vietnamese
- Countries
- France
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Cinephile deep dive
The take
Trần Anh Hùng directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in France. Dialogue in Vietnamese.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 23-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 237 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Lâm Lê and Duy Mai Lan Nguyen and Trần Anh Hùng carry the top of the cast.
- 5IMDB entry: tt0479229 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 6Only 6 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 23 min · 0h 23m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- VI
Also by
Trần Anh Hùng
Production companies
Who made it
Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière
FR
Key crew
Release history · US
When it landed
- Premiere1989-05-18
Also known as
International titles
- La Femme mariée de Nam XuongFR
