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"Interviews with Vietnamese-American women are re-enacted using excerpts drawn from an oral history, published in France, not from these women's own experiences. The use of traditional dance and poetry suggests that the oppression of women under the communist government is the continuation of the traditional subjugation of Vietnamese women. However, 'consumption of meaning' takes second place to the creation for the filmmaker and the spectator of 'a critically creative space' in which to explore the politics of interviews, the meaning of language itself and the manipulations taken for granted in more conventional documentary strategies. A range of alternative strategies are employed in the resistance to categorisation: non-linearity, disjunction between spoken and written text, and between speaker and what is spoken, a tension between fabrication and the desire for naturalism."@en
"Trinh T. Minh-ha's film looks at the many faces of culture of Vietnamese women as seen in staged interviews, dance footage, and manipulated archival images. Also questions the politics of interviewing and the problems of translation in filmmaking."@en
""Five Vietnamese women speak of their experiences with their culture, their experiences as women and as immigrants to america" -- "Trinh T. Minh-Ha's film looks at the many faces of culture, "the multiplicity of identity." Vietnamese women are seen in staged interviews, dance-footage, and manipulated archival images. Also involved is a questioning of the strategies inherent to the politics of interview and the problems of translation in filmmaking""
"Trinh T. Minh-ha's film looks at the many faces of culture, "the multiplicity of identity," in this case of Vietnamese women as seen in staged interviews, dance-footage, and manuipulated archival images. Also involved is a questioning of the strategies inherent to the politics of interview and the problems of translation in filmmaking."@en
"Interviews with Vietnamese-American women are re-enacted using excerpts drawn from an oral history published in France, not from these women's own experiences. The use of traditional dance and poetry suggests that the oppression of women under the communist government is the continuation of the traditional subjugation of Vietnamese women. However, 'consumption of meaning' takes second place to the creation for the filmmaker and the spectator of 'a critically creative space' in which to explore the politics of interviews, the meaning of language itself and the manipulations taken for granted in more conventional documentary strategies. A range of alternative strategies are employed in the resistance to categorisation: non-linearity, disjunction between spoken and written text, and between speaker and what is spoken, a tension between fabrication and the desire for naturalism."@en
"Trinh T. Minh-ha's film looks at the many faces of culture, "the multiplicity of identity." Vietnamese women are seen in staged interviews, dance-footage, and manipulated archival images. Also involved is a questioning of the strategies inherent to the politics of interview and the problems of translation in filmmaking."@en
"Un essai sur la répression des femmes dans la société vietnamienne. Le film est centré sur la culture vietnamienne vue au travers de l'histoire de résistance des femmes, la tradition orale, les images encouragées par les medias ainsi que la vie et les regards des femmes vietnamiennes."
"In the first part of this film South Vietnamese women talk about life, politics, feminism and women's liberation in post-war Vietnam. They also talk about their memories of the war years and the period of so-called "re-education." Some of them recall stories of famous heroines and female literary figures of Vietnam's past. The second part of the film focuses on Vietnamese women who chose to flee from their homeland to the United States at the end of the war. They tell of their experiences as refugees and the difficult adjustments as well as the success they have had in the United States. The words they speak are not always their own."@en