Thailand, Vietnam & China
The second installment of Filmatique’s Foreign Language Oscar Submissions series features films from Thailand, Vietnam and China.
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s Headshot explores Buddhist themes of karma and retribution through the inverted perspective of its protagonist, a wayward cop. Philippe Muyl’s The Nightingale follows an old man and his grandson on a picturesque journey though China’s rural Guangxi Province. A special screening of The Scent of Green Papaya rounds out the collection as the only Vietnamese film ever to be nominated for the Oscar.
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Headshot
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Pen-Ek Ratanaruang • Thailand-France • 2011
Tul used to be a good man. Before he was blackmailed by a powerful politician, Tul was earnest and scrupulous; now he’s just a corrupt cop hell-bent on revenge. Soon he is recruited as a hitman, leading to an accident in which his visi...
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The Nightingale
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Philippe Muyl • China-France • 2013 • A journey of family, nature, and tradition in modern China.
Renxing, an only child, lives with her parents in Beijing. Between their demanding professions, they have little time for her, which they compensate for with gifts and pampering. O...
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The Scent of Green Papaya
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Tran Anh Hung • 1993 • Vietnam
A society's slow decline tracks with a woman's romantic blossoming.
In 1950s Saigon, ten-year-old Mui obtains a job working as a servant for an affluent Vietnamese family. Ten years later, the family has fallen on hard times, leading Mui to change ...
