Scent of Green Papaya, The

Vietnam / France 1993, 104 minutes
Dir. Tran Anh Hung
In Vietnamese with English subtitles
Rating: [PG]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama

Topics: Good Taste, Peasantry, Period 1950s, Rites-of-passage.

Feat. Tran Nu Yen-Khe, Man San Lu, Thi Loc Truong, Hoa Hoi Nguyen, Yoshio Inaba

Aroview: Drama as crisp and luxuriant as its title observes a wealthy Saigon family over two turbulent decades through the eyes of a peasant servant girl. Its delicate charm tributes a generation of women for whom 'servitude and love are inextricably entwined'.

NZ International Film Festival 1994

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4 stars (Very Good) The scenes of the 10-year-old Mui (Man San Lu) are the strongest. The wonderful photography captures her beautiful, innocent, inquisitive face. The comparison with the two well off potentially psychopathic sons is well done. The soundtrack is distinctive. ~Tubbs