Movie
The Stealing Woman
1988 · 250 min
A slow, harrowing plunge into shame and cruelty, watching a woman stripped of everything with unrelenting solemnity.
- Directed by
- Lương Đức
- Overview
- In early 20th-century North Vietnam, an impoverished woman is chastised by her parents for giving birth out of wedlock and has to sell her baby to evade punishments from the villagers. No longer able to bear the agony, she flees her hometown to find the lover who has abandoned her. A series of misfortunes and violations afterwards soon push the woman into a circle of violence and treachery.
- How it feels
- Bleak, dark, melancholic and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Grief, isolation, betrayal, survival
- Content
- Strong violence and sexual content. Mild gore and language.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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