The Scent of Green Papaya
International Arthouse
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1h 43m
Directed by Tran Anh Hung | 104 mins | 1993
The first film in Hùng’s acclaimed Vietnam Trilogy is a beautifully detailed, sublimely sensitive, and quietly moving evocation of midcentury Saigon—reconstructed on a French soundstage—depicting 10 years in the intersecting lives of a concert pianist, a young female servant, and the formerly wealthy family who first employ her.
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