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Finally, the task of remembering Vietnam has fallen to a Vietnamese writer- director. The Saigon on view in Tran Anh Hung's The Scent of Green Papaya, recently nominated for a foreign-language-film Oscar, is serene, shimmering and stripped of melodrama. Set in two ominously tranquil periods -- 1951, a few years before the French collapse at Dien Bien Phu, and 1961, just before the U.S. buildup -- Green Papaya is seemingly apolitical. Yet in Tran's family drama one can see a society torn between East and West, passivity and passion, duty and will, ancient rites and modern desires...
...Wings of Desire, is a monumentally quirky film essay that gradually, and satisfyingly, surrenders to the conventions of the thriller genre. The festival had two out-of-nowhere finds, both set in the '50s and '60s: Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Blue Kite, from China, and The Odor of Green Papaya, a lovely Vietnamese film made in France by writer-director Tran Anh Hung, 30, and a cast of refugees; both tell bold stories of a child's coming of age. And Abel Ferrara's Hollywood horror movie Body Snatchers, saved from the slag heap of Warner Bros. rejects, revives...
...group released a survey of leading brands showing that the ingredients now imprecisely listed on the backs of labels do not add up to the claims made on their fronts. "Manufacturers are cheating consumers by passing off what is mostly apple and grape juice as more expensive kiwi, papaya, raspberry and cherry juice," declared C.S.P.I. legal-affairs director Bruce Silverglade. "If a company is selling strawberry-flavored apple-grape juice, then that's what the product should be called...
...Angeles' superstar chef, Wolfgang Puck. Pacific Rim cuisine--more for dining out than cooking in -- features American, chiefly Californian, staples subtly accented by Oriental herbs and spices such as lemongrass or ginger. The result: dishes that have a Western look but an Eastern aura, like shrimp and papaya salad with Thai peanut dressing...
...Angeles' superstar chef, Wolfgang Puck. Pacific Rim cuisine--more for dining out than cooking in -- features American, chiefly Californian, staples subtly accented by Oriental herbs and spices such as lemongrass or ginger. The result: dishes that have a Western look but an Eastern aura, like shrimp and papaya salad with Thai peanut dressing...