Cánh dong bat tan

"Mr. Vo" (Dustin Nguyen) was a happily married man until his wife leaves him with two young children to raise. In anger and sorrow, he burns his house down and then takes his daughter, "Nuong" (Ninh Duong Lan Ngoc) and his son "Diem" (Vo Thanh Hoa) with him to live on a houseboat traveling up and down the Mekong Delta. This continues for seven years until one day a badly beaten woman named "Suong" (Do Thi Hai Yen) is helped by Diem into the boat where they take care of her and tend to her wounds. Later they find out that she is a prostitute who was beaten by an angry mob of females for seducing one of their husbands. So, with nowhere else to go, she essentially becomes a part of the family as they drift along and try to scratch out a living the best way they know how. Now, rather than reveal any more of this movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it, I will just say that this is a very deep drama which is both slow and sad. Although filmed in Vietnamese (with English subtitles) it was clear early on that this was a masterfully made project with good acting and exquisite Vietnamese scenery. Likewise, the presence of Ninh Duong Lan Ngoc certainly didn't hurt in that respect either. In any case, this was a very good movie and I recommend it to anyone who might be interested in this type of film.