Floating lives
By: Vietnam Media Corporation presents a Vietnam Studio production in association with Mega Media
Contributors: Ngụy, Ngữ, screenwriter; Nguyen, Dustin, 1962- actor; Đỗ, Thị Hải Yến, actor; Tăng, Thanh Hà, actor; Nguyễn, Ngọc Tư, 1976-; Vietnam Media Corporation; Vietnam Studio; Mega Media (Firm); Sony Home Video
Published: 2010
Language: vie
Format: [videorecording]  /
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Rural poor; Rural families; Fiction
Other titles: Cánh đồng bất tận
Description: "Floating lives takes place during the peak of the avian flu outbreak in Southeast Asia, where a poor family of duck herders evades government officials and dangerous gangs scattered throughout the Mekong Delta. The family travels exclusively by a worn-down rickety house boat, serving as both their mode of transportation as well as their perpetual home. ... Completely severed from the advancements of the Vietnamese economic miracle, the struggles of this family remind audiences that many people living on the periphery are often left behind, even sacrificed in the name of progress"--Vietnamese International Film Festival WWW site.
Notes: Originally produced in Vietnam and released in 2010.

Adapted from: Cánh đồng bất tận / Nguyễn, Ngọc Tư.

LPCM 2 audio; 4:3 aspect ratio.

"Draft cut copy with sample music for screening purpose only" appears on the screen when subtitles are not present.

Some information taken from Internet movie database.

Directed by Phan Quang Binh Nguyen ; writer, Ngu Nguy ; music, Nguyễn Quốc Trung ; cinematography, Nguyễn Tranh ; editing, Folmer Wiesinger.

Dustin Nguyễn, Do Thi Hai Yen, Tăng Thanh Hà.

DVD ; wide screen.

In Vietnamese, with English subtitles and credits; container in Vietnamese.