Thi Mai
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →After losing her daughter in an accident, Carmen loses all incentive to keep going, until she receives an unexpected letter from the adoption agency: her daughter was finally granted the Vietnamese girl she had asked for adoption and whose name is Thi Mai.
Our read · Thi Mai (2018) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Thi Mai
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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