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A Tale Of Love
1995 | 1h 48m | Drama
Re-imagining the long Vietnamese poem The Tale of Kiều (1820), seen by the Vietnamese people as a mythical biography of the 'motherland' marked by internal turbulence and foreign domination, Trinh T Minh-ha’s A Tale of Love follows a modern day Kieu, a complex and strong female character.
A love of 'love' consumes Trinh's Kieu, who is conflicted by her representation through photographic images and their social and symbolic significance through the love of those who view them. The film breaks open traditional narrative conventions in favour of what Trinh describes as a denaturalized space...