Screening of “Mother’s Soul”

Wed 22 Feb 2012, 7.30 pm
Cinematheque

From FVH:
Friends of Vietnam Heritage is pleased to invite you to our film showing of Mother’s Soul (Tâm hồn mẹ) on Wednesday February 22nd at Cinematheque Hanoi. The latest film by reputed female director Nhuệ Giang, Mother’s Soul won Best Actress Award at Dubai International Film Festival 2011 for the heartbreaking and nuanced performance of the 12-year-old actress Phùng Hoa Hoài Linh.

Based on a short story of the same name written by Nguyễn Huy Thiệp in the late 1980s, Mother’s soul tells the story of a mother and her daughter who live on an island in the middle of the Red River in Hanoi.

When her mother falls in love with a driver, the nine-year-old girl suffers from the lack of maternal attention. As the mother become more and more obsessed with her lover, the daughter unwittingly takes on a maternal role herself to the orphan next door until an accident changes their lives forever. Through these tender human relationships, Mother’s Soul looks at the effect of capitalism on a former communist economy.

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitle

Cost: 130,000 VND (half-price tickets for students with valid student ID)

Limit: 90 people
To Register: Please email Thu at [email protected]. Please leave your mobile phone number so we can contact you in case of any last minute changes.