The Third Wife spends its time considering the hidden depths of these women not only as defined by their individual wants but also by what society dictates upon them.

| Feb 25, 2020

Perhaps most remarkable is the contrast between the intense interior drama and the lush, languorous world in which it rages.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2019

It's certainly a curiosity for connoisseurs of Third World cinema.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 8, 2019

There's a fury underlying this film that goes unexpressed to the point of almost going unacknowledged, and it saps "The Third Wife" of a strength and momentum it could use.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 3, 2019

The Third Wife is more or less upfront about the element of sado-masochistic fantasy built into the scenario, oddly fused with the charm of a rural idyll.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 2, 2019

What we have here is a small, delicate mini-masterpiece, and bright new talent behind the camera.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 30, 2019

There is much that is finely wrought here as a tactile slice of women's history told in careful observances, hidden textures and the sights and sounds of nature unbound.

| May 23, 2019

The movie is... trapped in the same claustrophobia it depicts, unsure of how much it can or wants to get away with.

| May 14, 2019

An unabashedly reticent arthouse film, The Third Wife takes its time drifting through May's coming of age, which will try the patience of some audiences.

| Original Score: B+ | May 14, 2019

An audience-friendly affair which deals with harrowing subject-matter in restrained, tactful and aesthetically entrancing style...

| Oct 5, 2018

Gently dipping us into the long ago and far away past, Ash Mayfair's directorial debut brings an intimate immediacy to the re-creation of rural Vietnam in the late 19th century.

| Oct 5, 2018