Review of The Third Wife (2019) by Hau Chu for Washington Post — 24 Jun 2019
Some viewers may want delicacy in a period film about women navigating a world in which they’ve been pitted against one another. But maybe, Mayfair suggests, we need the blunt reminder: The issues that women were confronting in the Vietnam of the 1800s — a world in which they’re considered property more than people — aren’t all that different from today.
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This review of The Third Wife (2019) was written by Hau Chu and published by Washington Post on 24 June 2019.
The Third Wife has generally received positive reviews.
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