This gorgeous cinematography nominee is about a 19th century Vietnamese girl entering an arranged marriage with a man and his two wives. Then-12-year-old Nguyen Phuong Tra My makes a terrific acting debut, as I recall (we streamed it quite a while ago). Watch the trailer here. The movie did not win the Spirit award for cinematography but racked up a number of other nominations and wins.
It's the feature debut of director/writer Ash Mayfair, after several short film, who is currently "reworking" her movie into a silent black and white film, entitled Between Shadow and Soul, with an expected release date of May 5, 2020 (but who knows in these uncertain virus times?).
The nominated cinematographer Chananun Chotrungroj is also a woman, while the composer An Ton That AKA Aaken is not. His entire score is available for streaming (and purchase) here.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics' average is 89 and its audiences' 67. We rented it on Amazon Prime on February 7, 2020, before the Spirit and Academy Awards, and it is still available.
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