| Film Synopsis |
Co-sponsored by VAALA, Floating Lives is based on Boundless Rice Field, a novel by Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tu, winner of the Asian Literature Award in 2007. Vu and his children Dien and Nuong raise ducks and live on a boat in the Mekong River. One day, Dien saves Suong, a prostitute who was seriously injured by the townspeople. The family takes her in, and their relationship takes a turn for the strange. In Suong, Nuong sees the mother who abandoned them. Dien sees Suong as both a woman and a mother, and Suong in turn falls in love with Vu. But tragedy befalls the family after the bird flu hits the town. Director Nguyen Phan Quang Binh fashions a lyrical description of people carrying deep wounds that are not easily healed, and the process of overcoming such obstacles. Their life resembles the river on which they live-full of bends, but ever unchanging.
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