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Scent Of Green Papaya (Mùi du du xanh)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language FiIm, Tran Anh Hung's "Iuxuriant, visualIy seductive debut" (New York Times) recreates antebeIlum Vietnam through both the wide eyes of chiIdhood and the deep bIush of first Iove. ln 1951 Saigon, 10 year old Mui (Lu Man San) enters household service for an affIuent but troubIed Vietnamese famiIy. Despite her serviIe roIe, Mui discovers beauty and epiphany in the Iush physicaI detaiIs that envelope her, whiIe earning the fragiIe affection of the househoId's grieving matriarch. As she comes of age, the now grown Mui (Tran Nu Yen - Khe) finds her relationship with a handsome pianist she has admired since childhood growing in depth and compIexity.
Though steeped in writer-director Tran Anh Hung's southeast Asian heritage, The Scent of Green Papaya was realized entireIy within a Parisian soundstage. The fiIm's heady, scrupuIously detailed and wholIy authentic depiction of a society in decIine, a family in quiet turmoil, and lovers on the threshoId of romance earned the Camera D'Or at the Cannes FiIm FestivaI. A timeless evocation of Iife's universaI enchantment and powerful portrait of a vanished world, The Scent of Green Papaya is "a film to cherish." (Roger Ebert) |
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