The deserted valley / directed by Pham Nhue Giang.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Pham Nhue, Giang, director.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

Vietnamese

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology).

Sex (Psychology).

Genre:

Feature films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (91 min.)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Privately Published, 2002.

Language Note:

In Vietnamese.

Original language in Vietnamese.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Tanh (Nguyen Hau) is a kindly janitor at a simple school for one of the country's ethnic minorities. He's soft on one of the women teachers, Giao (Hong Anh), to the chagrin of the other, sulky Minh (Tuyet Hanh). One of the pupils, young peasant woman Mi (Thu Trang), falls for Hung (Trung Dung), bathing in a nearby pool; devastated when she finds Giao is his lover, Mi tries to blacken the teacher's name. Pic is upfront about locals' take-it-or-leave-it attitude toward education, as well as the wavering conviction of the school's staff Tanh, who likes a drink or two, often thinks of packing it in. Melodrama is tightly held in check, replaced by a simmering sexuality that occasionally springs free in surprisingly explicit sequences.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed June 09, 2015).

Nominated 2002 Jeonju Film Festival, Asian New Comers

Won 2002 Melbourne International Film Festival, FIPRESCI Prize

Nominated 2002 Singapore International Film Festival, Best Asian Feature Film

OCLC:

911712278