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VỢ BA (2018) dir. Ash Mayfair Though only 14 years old, May is selected to be the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Her new home seems idyllic, her husband favours her, and she quickly becomes pregnant with what she is certain will be the desired male progeny. But trouble is quietly brewing: she witnesses a forbidden tryst that will spark a chain reaction of misfortunes — and stir in May urges that until now had been dormant. (link in title)

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The Third Wife (2018) dir. Ash Mayfair

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Celebrating Ash Mayfair! "I love the theme of womanhood. I think I could spend my whole life on that, probably. I have written two scripts already. A period war script and a slightly more modern film. They are both set in Vietnam." Read more in this Filmmaker interview “Everything We Could Embrace about Motherhood Happened Through the Making of this Movie”: Director Ash Mayfair on Her Vietnam-Set Debut, The Third Wife.

The Third Wife | Vợ ba (2018) "Ash Mayfair’s The Third Wife is a powerful exercise in empathy, an exquisitely beautiful film on the surface which contains one of the bleakest portrayals of how patriarchy limits women’s autonomy." Read more about the film in Seventh Row's The Third Wife Review: A beautiful and bleak portrayal of patriarchy.

Between Shadow and Soul (2020) reworked The Third Wife into a silent, black and white film. Explore Mayfair's filmography on MUBI:

I loved having the opportunity to see Mayfair's The Third Wife on the big screen and hear from the filmmaker about her creative process during her 2019 visit to Indiana University Cinema. It was fun to realize that the moment when I was asking her a question during the Q&A was captured in this lovely photo! If you have a chance to hear her speak about her filmmaking process, I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did.