Adrift

– Adrift begins with the wedding of Duyen and Hai. Duyen is a beautiful tourist guide and translator w..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.40 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 50 Minutes
Release Year:
2009
Original Name:
Chơi Vơi
Adrift (2009) - Also known as Chơi Vơi

Adrift begins with the wedding of Duyen and Hai. Duyen is a beautiful tourist guide and translator who marries Hai, a taxi driver who is two years her junior. Duyen thinks the marriage will make her happy but it turns out more difficult, especially since her childlike husband is uninterested in her efforts of intimacy and the marriage remains unconsummated. Cam, secretly in love with Duyen, is bitter about the marriage. Cam has Duyen deliver a letter to Tho, a handsome lothario and tourist guide who physically hurls himself on Duyen when she visits his home to deliver the letter. After Tho reports back to Cam that Duyen is sexually inexperienced, Cam diabolically persuades Duyen to take a temporary job as a translator on one of Tho’s beach tours, knowing what will happen. Duyen's time at the beach with Tho results in an affair leading to Duyen's sexual awakening but continued uncertainty about herself, marriage, and life.

Adrift (2009) - Trailer

Release Date:

01 May 2011

Language:

Portuguese, French

MPAA Content-Rating:
Not Rated

Director:

Heitor Dhalia

Writer:

Heitor Dhalia, Vera Egito (collaborating writer)

Main Actors:

Laura Neiva, Vincent Cassel, Camilla Belle, Izadora Armelin

Plot:

It is the 80's, and fourteen year-old Filipa is spending her vacation at Búzios with her father, Mathias, her alcoholic mother, Clarice, and her two younger siblings in their beach house. When Filipa feels that the relationship of her parents is deteriorating, she snoops in her father's office. There she finds pictures of Mathias with his American lover Ângela hidden in a drawer of his desk. When Mathias and Clarice announce to their children that they are not going to live together for a period, the confused Filipa believes that Ângela is the responsible for the separation of her parents and discovers that the marriage of Mathias and Clarice is built on a bed of lies.

Awards:

7 wins & 15 nominations.

Production:

O2 Filmes

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%