Join us for the third film of our summer Art House Film Series featuring independent and foreign cinema!
An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Tran Anh Hung’s “luxuriant, visually seductive debut” (New York Times) recreates antebellum Vietnam through both the wide eyes of childhood and the deep blush of first love. In 1951 Saigon, 10 year old Mui (Lu Man San) enters household service for an affluent but troubled Vietnamese family. Despite her servile role, Mui discovers beauty and epiphany in the lush physical details that envelope her, while earning the fragile affection of the household’s grieving matriarch. As she comes of age, the now grown Mui (Tran Nu Yen-Khe) finds her relationship with a handsome pianist she has admired since childhood growing in depth and complexity.
All films are free and intended for adult audiences. Doors open at 6:15pm. Light refreshments served.
Free Admission
2019/07/31 - 2019/07/31
Emmet O'Neal Library (Mountain Brook)
50 Oak Street, Mountain Brook, AL 35213