Những cô gái chân dài builds its drama around young women entering Ho Chi Minh City’s fashion-modeling world, where glamour, ambition, friendship, class, and exploitation collide. Working through drama, the film lets relationships carry the weight of its social setting.
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Synopsis
The film follows characters caught in young women entering Ho Chi Minh City’s fashion-modeling world, where glamour, ambition, friendship, class, and exploitation collide. Their immediate choices create the narrative movement, but each decision is constrained by family relationships, social expectations, material conditions, and the larger historical world around them. As the central conflict develops, private desires become increasingly difficult to separate from obligations to other people. Relationships that initially appear stable are tested by fear, ambition, memory, class, duty, or loss. The story accumulates consequences rather than treating one event as an isolated crisis, allowing the characters’ environment to become part of the drama. By the final movement, the film has transformed its specific situation into a broader reflection on how people adapt when inherited values no longer fit the conditions in which they are living.
Những cô gái chân dài enters Ho Chi Minh City’s fashion-modeling world through young women confronting glamour, ambition, friendship, class, and exploitation. The film uses the industry’s polished surface to expose the labor, competition, and compromises underneath, making urban aspiration both seductive and precarious.
Watch for
- Pay attention to public and domestic space as Vũ Ngọc Đãng develops young women entering Ho Chi Minh City’s fashion-modeling world, where glamour, ambition, friendship, class, and exploitation collide; changing urban life registers through routine rather than panoramic explanation.
- Watch how Những cô gái chân dài makes young women entering Ho Chi Minh City’s fashion-modeling world, where glamour, ambition, friendship, class, and exploitation collide visible through housing, streets and workplaces; access to privacy and mobility becomes social evidence.
Production notes
Những cô gái chân dài was directed by Vũ Ngọc Đãng and released in 2004. The film has circulated internationally under the title Long-Legged Girls.
Trivia
- Vũ Ngọc Đãng’s first feature shot for 35 days, used real models in major roles, completed post-production in Thailand, and received a Silver Lotus at the 14th Vietnam Film Festival.
Legacy
Những cô gái chân dài remains valuable for the specificity with which it records young women entering Ho Chi Minh City’s fashion-modeling world, where glamour, ambition, friendship, class, and exploitation collide, giving later viewers a concrete view of its moment.
Find This Film
Search the exact Vietnamese title “Những cô gái chân dài” with Vũ Ngọc Đãng and 2004; then cross-check against VnExpress production interviews and WorldCat institutional catalogue. Prefer institutional, festival, licensed, or contemporary Vietnamese sources over scraped catalogue copies.