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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In nineteenth-century rural Vietnam, fourteen-year-old May becomes the third wife of wealthy landowner Hung. Soon, she learns that she can only gain status by asserting herself as a woman who can give birth to a male child. May's hope to change her status turns into a real and tantalizing possibility when she gets pregnant. Faced with forbidden love and its devastating consequences, May finally comes to an understanding of the brutal truth: the options...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Mama and her toddler turn an outing to the grocery store into a fun opportunity to talk, and learn a little math along the way. Mama fills their cart with items in quantities of one and two, and lets her baby hold each item, connecting each action to the number of hands baby has. In this way baby begins to understand simple math. Back home Mama shares one banana between the two of them and baby proudly recognizes two pieces, thus showing an understanding...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Winner of the prestigious Camera d'Or for best first film at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the enthralling Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell from Vietnamese filmmaker Pham Thien An is a reverie on faith, loss, and nature expressed with uncommon invention and depth. It₂s a simple tale told with visual complexity: after a car accident claims the life of his sister-in-law and leaves his 5-year-old nephew an orphan, a thirtysomething man named Thien...
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Description
The Harper matriarch meddling and peddling her homespun wisdom to anyone within earshot. She ghosts as an advice columnist for her sister, Fran, and helps spring cousin Gert (Imogene Coca) from a retirement community after livening up a birthday party there. Mama takes her lumps, especially when she s clocked by a pot while making gooseberry jam with daughters Eunice (Carol Burnett) and Ellen (Betty White). But you can t keep the old lady down for...