The Married Woman of Nam Xuong

Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière

Drama
23 min     5.4     1989     France

Overview

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.

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