FESTIVAL ’90 : Shattering View From the Rim
Highlights of Los Angeles Festival’s films and videos focusing on 25 Pacific Rim countries are reviewed here:
Today
When the Tenth Month Comes
Vietnam Airs tonight at 9 on KCET-TV; Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Los Feliz Theater, 1822 N. Vermont Ave., Hollywood Dang Nhat Minh’s “When the Tenth Month Comes” (1984) is a film of pastoral beauty, great sensitivity and subtlety. In a rural village, a young wife conceals the news of her husband’s death in battle from her elderly, ailing father-in-law with the help of letters written in the dead man’s name by the local schoolteacher who, in fact, falls in love with her. Their ensuing, chaste friendship, subject to gossip and criticism, gives way to the larger issue of how to honor the war dead: Shall the wife mourn her loss, even after her father-in-law’s death, or has she the right to start a new life for herself?
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