Adrift

Adrift (2009)

Chơi vơi

Soon after her wedding, newlywed Duyen's excitement begins to fade as she realizes her young husband is not only naive but overly occupied by his job and doting mother. As her marriage goes unconsummated and her emotional isolation grows, she reaches out to her closest girlfriend, Cam, who secretly desires her, but pushes her into the arms of a dangerous and provocative suitor. The resulting infidelity puts Duyen in a precarious love triangle, challenging her notions of conventional relationships and also the stability of her new family.

Date of release
2009-11-13
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Drama
Director
Bùi Thạc Chuyên

Casting

Interesting facts

Adrift is a 2009 Vietnamese film directed by Bui Thac Chuyen and stars Đỗ Thị Hải Yến, Linh Dan Pham, Johnny Tri Nguyen and Nguyen Duy Khoa. Hai Yen plays Duyen, a young tourist guide who marries Hai, a taxi driver, but her friend and writer Cam still has feelings for her. The film deals with issues in modern Vietnam such as homosexuality and loneliness of the young generation. The film is a co-production between Feature Film Studio n°1 (Vietnam) and Acrobates Films (France).

Production

The movie's screenwriter, Phan Dang Di, is known for writing various works surrounding the topic of agriculture in Vietnam during the country's transitional and integrational period. In 2001, Bui Thac Chuyen received the script for the movie. Throughout production, the two revised the script multiple times. Before being named Adrift, the movie had many alternative titles.

Producer Dang Tat Binh shared that the movie required a budget of 7 billion Vietnamese dong ($265,860 in 2026). However, the government could only sponsor 1.6 billion Vietnamese dong ($60,768 in 2026), forcing the crew to find alternative sources of funding. The Hubert Bals Fund from the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Fonds Sud Cinéma Fund from France contributed a total of €130 thousand.

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