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Article: `Papaya': an alluring vision of Vietnam

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February 25, 1994
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THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA

Directed and written by: Tran Anh Hung

Starring: Tran Nu Yen-Khe, Lu Man San, Truong Thi Loc,

Nguyen Anh Hoa, Vuong Hoa Hoi, Tran Ngoc Trung

Playing at: Coolidge Corner (Vietnamese, English

subtitles)

Unrated

There's more to Vietnam than the Vietnam War, although moviegoing Americans would have little reason to think it until now. Widening our hitherto narrow perspective in the most tender way is Tran Anh Hung's Oscar-nominated "The Scent of Green Papaya," a dreamy, lyrical, exquisitely textured and resonant evocation of prewar Vietnamese domestic life from 1951 to 1961. It begins with a 10-year-old servant, Mui, wandering slowly and gingerly ...

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