Asian Films Summaries

Asian film directions

Write a One and a half to two paragraph summary of each of the 5 following films:

1. “The scent of green papaya” (France/Vietnam: 1993 Tran Ang Hung)

2. “Puteri Gunung Ledang: A legendary Love” (Malaysia: 2004, Saw Teong Hin)

3. “Indochine” (France: 1992, Regis Wargnier)

4. “Jodhaa Akbar” (India: 2008, Ashutosh Gowarikera)

5. “Gandhi” (?: 1982, Richard Attenborough)

6. “Water” (India/Canada: 2005, Deepa Mehta

In each summary, state “the major idea of that film” followed by “How does the film reflect the major idea”. {use this format for each film summary}