Tag: The Scent of Green Papaya
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French Oscar Hopeful ‘The Pot-au-Feu’ With Juliette Binoche Gets New Title Ahead of U.S. Release (Exclusive)
The French drama “The Pot-au-Feu,” one of the breakout hits at the Cannes Film Festival and one of the movies that could represent France at the Academy Awards, has received a new title, Variety has learned exclusively.Now under its new title — “The Taste of Things” – the movie will also have a qualifying run…
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Cannes Film Festival: ‘Sir’
Gently suggestive and mostly confined to richly detailed interiors, the contempo Mumbai-set “Sir” recalls Tran Ahn-hung’s “The Scent of Green Papaya” for its depiction of a furtive love blossoming between an upper-crust architect and his widowed domestic helper. Yet rather than reiterating Tran’s nostalgic fetishization of the docile Asian woman, tyro writer-director Rohena Gera emphasizes…