By Raghu Pratap
French-Vietnamese filmmaker Tran Anh Hung came to the cinema world’s attention with his very first film – “The Scent of Green Papaya”: a glacially paced, aesthetically lush work set in 1950s and 1960s Saigon with a significant dose of political subtext that continues to find relevance even today. The film created waves among the film fraternity, winning two awards at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival including the Camera d’Or, a Cesar award for Best Debut Feature, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1993. “The Scent of Green Papaya” forms the first of a triumvirate of films -referred to as Tran’s ‘Vietnam Trilogy’ which includes his later works: “Cyclo” (1995) and “The Vertical Ray of the Sun” (2000).
The movie takes place in two timelines, separated by ten years. In the first section, the film revolves around, and follows a young...
French-Vietnamese filmmaker Tran Anh Hung came to the cinema world’s attention with his very first film – “The Scent of Green Papaya”: a glacially paced, aesthetically lush work set in 1950s and 1960s Saigon with a significant dose of political subtext that continues to find relevance even today. The film created waves among the film fraternity, winning two awards at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival including the Camera d’Or, a Cesar award for Best Debut Feature, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1993. “The Scent of Green Papaya” forms the first of a triumvirate of films -referred to as Tran’s ‘Vietnam Trilogy’ which includes his later works: “Cyclo” (1995) and “The Vertical Ray of the Sun” (2000).
The movie takes place in two timelines, separated by ten years. In the first section, the film revolves around, and follows a young...
- 3/22/2021
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
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