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Tran Nu Yên-Khê | ... | Mui Age 20 (as Trân Nu Yên-Khê) |
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Man San Lu | ... | Mui Age 10 #orphan # a little girl |
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Thi Loc Truong | ... | La mère (as Truong Thi Lôc) |
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Anh Hoa Nguyen | ... | La vieille Ti (as Nguyên 'Anh Hoa) |
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Hoa Hoi Vuong | ... | Khuyen (as Vuong Hòa Hôi) |
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Ngoc Trung Tran | ... | Le père |
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Vantha Talisman | ... | Thu |
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Keo Souvannavong | ... | Trung |
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Van Oanh Nguyen | ... | Mr. Thuan |
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Gerard Neth | ... | Tin |
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Nhat Do | ... | Lam |
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Thi Hai Vo | ... | La grand-mère |
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Thi Thanh Tra Nguyen | ... | Mai |
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Lam Huy Bui | ... | Le médecin |
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Xuan Thu Nguyen | ... | L'antiquaire |
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A little girl, Mui, went to a house as a new servant. The mother still mourns the death of her daughter, who would have been Mui's age. In her mind she treated Mui as her daughter. 10 years later Mui (now a young woman) was sent to another family, a young pianist and his fiancee. The musician fell in love with the peasant, he taught her literacy and they eventually married. A movie about a girl's life. Written by Zheng Wang <zhwang@das.harvard.edu>
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animal abuse | insect cage | polishing a shoe | sadness | talking in one's sleep |Parents Guide:
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Language:
VietnameseRelease Date:
28 January 1994 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
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$1,910,763Company Credits
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MonoColor:
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1.66 : 1
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Music by Frédéric Chopin (as Chopin)
Performed by Geneviève Ibanez
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The director Tran Anh Hung is married to Tran Nu Yên-Khê, the actress who plays Mui Age 20. See more »Soundtracks
Prélude no 23Music by Frédéric Chopin (as Chopin)
Performed by Geneviève Ibanez
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The video case for this film reads "a story of beauty, passion, and forbidden fruit". Are they talking about the same movie I just saw?! They can't be, as the film I just saw was beautiful, but there was no passion and as for the fruit, this is all hogwash meant to entice the potential viewer to see this movie. If only it did have some passion or some life to it, I would have greatly enjoyed this film. Instead, it was an agonizingly slow paced and not particularly interesting film that I would definitely not want to see again. It isn't that it's a bad film (after all it IS very beautifully filmed), but it is dull beyond belief. I kept waiting for something exciting or interesting to happen, but then the movie just ended. There was no great sense of excitement, mystery or anything--just a rather unexciting story about a young girl who becomes a servant and spends the next 10 years of her life working as a maid.