The Scent of Green Papaya | |
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Directed by | Tran Anh Hung |
Written by | Tran Anh Hung |
Produced by | Christophe Rossignon |
Cinematography | Benoît Delhomme |
Edited by | Nicole Dedieu Jean-Pierre Roques |
Music by | Tôn-Thât Tiêt |
Distributed by | Président Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | Vietnamese |
Box office | $1,700,992[1] |
The Scent of Green Papaya (Vietnamese: Mùi đu đủ xanh, French: L'Odeur de la papaye verte) is a 1993 Vietnamese-language French drama film directed by Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung, and starring Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Man San Lu, and Thi Loc Truong.[2]
The film won the Caméra d'Or prize at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival,[3] a César Award for Best Debut at the French annual film award ceremony, and was nominated for the 1993 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[4] It was Tran Anh Hung's first feature film and stars his wife, Tran Nu Yên-Khê. It is also his first collaboration with Vietnamese composer Tôn-Thât Tiêt who subsequently wrote the music for two more films: Cyclo and Vertical Ray of the Sun.
Although set in Vietnam, the film was shot entirely on a soundstage in Bry-sur-Marne, France.