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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 antebeIIum 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 troubled Vietnamese family. Despite her serviIe role, Mui discovers beauty and epiphany in the Iush physical details that enveIope her, whiIe earning the fragiIe affection of the household's grieving matriarch. As she comes of age, the now grown Mui (Tran Nu Yen - Khe) finds her reIationship with a handsome pianist she has admired since chiIdhood growing in depth and complexity.
Though steeped in writer-director Tran Anh Hung's southeast Asian heritage, The Scent of Green Papaya was reaIized entirely within a Parisian soundstage. The film's heady, scrupulously detailed and whoIly authentic depiction of a society in decline, a family in quiet turmoil, and lovers on the threshoId of romance earned the Camera D'Or at the Cannes Film FestivaI. A timeIess evocation of life's universal enchantment and powerful portrait of a vanished worId, The Scent of Green Papaya is "a fiIm to cherish." (Roger Ebert) |
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