The Deserted Valley = Thung lung hoang vang
Barcode: 58965627
Material Type: Video -Digital
Time: 90 mins
Date: 2002
Language: Vietnamese
Creator: Directed by Pham Nhue Giang
Description: "Tanh (Nguyen Hau) is a kindly janitor at a simple school for one of the country's ethnic minorities. He's soft on one of the women teachers, Giao (Hong Anh), to the chagrin of the other, sulky Minh (Tuyet Hanh). One of the pupils, young peasant woman Mi (Thu Trang), falls for Hung (Trung Dung), bathing in a nearby pool; devastated when she finds Giao is his lover, Mi tries to blacken the teacher's name. Pic is upfront about locals' take-it-or-leave-it attitude toward education, as well as the wavering conviction of the school's staff "” Tanh, who likes a drink or two, often thinks of packing it in. Melodrama is tightly held in check, replaced by a simmering sexuality that occasionally springs free in surprisingly explicit sequences."
Collection: Language Resource Center