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The Scent Of Green Papaya
1993
In 1950s Saigon, Mui, a 10 year-old peasant girl, goes to work as a servant for a merchant family. Quiet, well-mannered, and almost supernaturally observant of the most minute and beautiful details that life has to offer, she grows into a young woman who is as much a part of the somewhat dysfunctional family as the real members .. Read more
| Starring | Yen-Khe, Thi Loc, Anh Hoa |
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| Director | Tran Anh Hung |
| Genres | Drama |
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The Scent Of Green Papaya
In 1950s Saigon, Mui, a 10 year-old peasant girl, goes to work as a servant for a merchant family. Quiet, well-mannered, and almost supernaturally observant of the most minute and beautiful details that life has to offer, she grows into a young woman who is as much a part of the somewhat dysfunctional family as the real members themselves. As the family runs out of money, she is sent to work for a family friend, a young man whom she has known since she was a child and whom she secretly loves. Beautifully photographed, the film was the winner of the Camera d'Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
| Starring | Yen-Khe, Thi Loc, Anh Hoa |
|---|---|
| Director | Tran Anh Hung |
| Studio | SECOND SIGHT FILMS LTD. |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 40 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: Vietnamese |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 15 Mar 2004 Production year: 1993 |
| Format | DVD |
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Set in pre-Vietnam War Saigon, this is the leisurely, minutely observed and thoroughly involving story of a servant girl and the relationships she develops with her employers and a handsome family friend. The opening segment is quite captivating, thanks to the guileless performance of Man San Lu as the ten-year-old maid, but the intensity of the drama as it moves into the 1960s compensates for the mannered innocence of Tran Nu Yen-Khe as the older Mui. A delightful study of duty, devotion and the quiet power of female dignity, it won director Tran Anh Hung the Camera d'Or at Cannes for best debut feature. Although the film is in Vietnamese, it was financed and produced in France.
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The story of Mui, a peasant girl who comes to Saigon to serve in the house of a bourgeois family: grandmother, parents,... read more on Time Out
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Lovely, gentle film
If you want a nice relaxing experience at the end of which you will feel positive and strangely uplifted, this is the film for you. It is not immediately accessible, but stay with it and you will be drawn into its gentle, melancholic pace, which while not glossing over the usual dramas of life, is set by the innocent unprivileged servant girl, who finds joy in the simple activities of ants. All the while her compassionate, accepting smile lingers in the background until it comes into centre stage at the end. A really lovely film.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Poetic and beautiful
In my opinion this magical film is one of the best films ever made for cinema. If you want to watch a fast paced American
formulaic movie this won't be for you. If you are able to set your clock to a slower
pace then just relax into another world and luxuriate in its sumptuousness. Then go watch At The Height Of Summer! -
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