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| ACTORS: | Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Lu Man San |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Anh Hung Tran |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 28 January, 1994 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Columbia/Tristar Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned |
| TYPE: | Foreign Film - Other |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 043396077232 |
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Customer Reviews of The Scent of Green Papaya
Simplified culture "The Scent of Green Papaya" tells the evolution of Vietnamese society in its 1950s through the story of Mui, a girl from the rural area, from being a servant in an upper class family to her marriage with a westernized pianist. The focal point of the movie is very much on the cultural richness of Vietnam. You can easily feel that each frame is very carefully set and shot. The camerawork is slow, but sometimes very formularized, and so is the acting.
The director Tran An Hung has been living in Paris for years. His dream of his parents' culture makes Vietnam the obvious choice for his film. The seemly artistic presentation of Vietnamese society received a lot of recognition in the West (Oscar nomination for the best foreign movie). But in my humble opinion, this acclaimed movie depicts a Vietnam that exists in this westernized director's fantasy rather than the Vietnam in the ordinary native Vietnamese's heart. The real Vietnamese culture has to be way beyond just a simple collection of symbolized exotic items presented in this movie.
A hauntingly beautiful love story
It is hard to imagine a more beautiful movie than Tran Anh Hung's "The Scent of Green Papaya". With a bare minimum of dialogue, Tran brings to the screen the story of Mui, a 10 year old Vietnamese girl who comes from the country to Saigon in the early 1950's as a live-in servant to an upper-class family whose wealth is being squandered by the dissolute and womanizing head of the house. Mui is a simple soul who finds delight in things most of us take for granted; the exquisite cinematography in this film brings out the beauty in the most ordinary objects and lets us share in Mui's sense of wonder and discovery. Ten years later, when the family's wealth has been dissipated to the point where they can no longer afford a live-in servant, Mui is sent to work for a wealthy young pianist, Khuyen, the friend of the eldest son of her former employers. Khuyen is engaged to be married but in Mui he finds the peace and serenity that is lacking in his shallow and materialistic fiancee. In very basic terms, "The Scent of Green Papaya" could be called a Vietnamese Cinderella story, except for the lack of a wicked stepmother. Despite the almost total lack of dialogue in the second half of the film, the movie is so beautifully crafted, and techically and emotionally so satisfying, that you come away awed with how Tran was able to do so much with so little. This film is living testimony to the fact that sometimes less is more. It's a beautiful, unforgettable story of a young woman's coming of age.
Highly Recommended!
Absolutely phenomenal! This is, by far, my favorite Vietnamese film. Rather than repeat what other reviewers have said, I will just say that I can not recommend this film highly enough. It really stays with you. BEAUTIFUL!!!