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An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and winner of the Camera D'Or at the Cannes Films Festival, The scent of green papaya is set in 1951 Saigon, where 10 year old Mui (Lu Man San) enters household service for an affluent but troubled Vietnamese family. Despite her servile role, Mui discovers beauty and epiphany in the lush physical details that envelope her.
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After a car accident claims the life of his sister-in-law and leaves his 5-year-old nephew an orphan, a thirtysomething man named Thien leaves Saigon for a trip back to his rural hometown. During his meditative, wandering visit, Thien wrestles with his own agnosticism in the face of others' religious beliefs, summons memories of his long-disappeared brother, and reconnects with a former girlfriend who now lives as a nun at a Christian church and school,...
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Vietnamese
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A deeply moving tale of tradition, love and deception. Three sisters, a brother, two husbands and a child are living and loving in a supportive clan that they have forged since the death of their parents. However, there are deep secrets that are threatening to disrupt the harmony and balance of their daily existence. Life is much more tenuous and complicated then it seems on the surface.
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Thời xa vắng là một tiểu thuyết tiêu biểu trong đời viết văn của nhà văn Lê Lựu. Tác phẩm ông chứa một dung lượng lớn chặng đường lịch sử 30 năm oai hùng của dân tộc, từ buổi lập nước đến lúc giải phóng toàn bộ đất nước. Lịch sử được khái quát bằng tiểu thuyết thông qua số phận của anh nông dân Giang Minh Sài: học giỏi, là niềm hy vọng,...
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