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Vietnamese Society in Oxford warmly invites you to our Michaelmas movie screening event.
Movie: The Scent of Green Papaya (Vietnamese: Mùi đu đủ xanh)
Language: Vietnamese with English Subtitles
Location: JCR Lecture Theatre, St. Catherine’s College
Time: 7pm, Thursday 12th November (Week 5)
Tickets: 3 pounds
All profits go to Blue Dragon Children Foundation (http://www.bluedragon.org/)
The Scent of Green Papaya is a 1993 movie directed by Vietnamese-French director Trần Anh Hùng (director for the movie adaptation of Murakami Haruki’s novel Norwegian Woods, among others).
The movie was nominated for the 1994 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and won the 1993 Camera D’or award in the Cannes Film Festival.
Synopsis: A little girl, Mui, went to a house as a new servant. The mother still mourns the death of her daughter, who would have been Mui’s age. In her mind she treated Mui as her daughter. 10 years later Mui (now a young woman) was sent to another family, a young pianist and his wife. The musician falls in love with the peasant, he taught her literacy and they eventually married. A movie about a girl’s life. (imdb)