UPLOAD: The Girl on the River (1987)

At last, here is the conclusion to my uploads of Dang Nhat Minh's films. This one is his third film, The Girl on the River.

"A woman reporter named Lien interviews a former wartime prostitute from South Vietnam named Nguyet, now a patient in a hospital, about her brief sheltering of an injured Vietcong leader during the war. Much of the story is told in flashback, lyrically recounting Nguyet’s risk of her own life to hide the soldier on her boat on the Perfumed River in central Vietnam, their brief affair, and his promise, just before he has to flee the military police, to return to her. When Lien goes back to the hospital the next day, she hears the rest of Nguyet’s story: another extended flashback shows Nguyet’s search for her former lover after the war, made all the more poignant by the fact that she doesn’t even know his name. One day, long after she’s given up prostitution to work on the roads in a transportation unit, she sees him pass by in the back of a car — her first indication that he’s still alive, and living somewhere in the same town. Spotting him again later, she follows him into a government building and tries to see him, only to be told by an intermediary that she’s mistaken him for someone else."

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