Indochine
A great film from a mysterious world
7.0 / 10
159 minutes
1992-04-15
French
FR
Actors :
Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh-Dan Pham, Jean Yanne, Dominique Blanc, Alain Fromager, Eric Nguyen, Jean-Baptiste Huynh, Henri Marteau, Carlo Brandt, Gérard Lartigau, Hubert Saint-Macary, Andrzej Seweryn, Mai Chau, Chu Hung
Description
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille, set against the backdrop of the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement.
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Reviews
CinemaSerf
4/21/2024, 10:03:14 AM
This is a sort of French equivalent of the British Merchant Ivory films that showcases the decline of a colonial influence in the early 1950s tempered with a bit of inter-racial romance. This time it the wealthy "Éliane" (Catherine Deneuve) who owns a large rubber plantation and adopts young local "Camille" (Linh-Dan Pham) whose powerful parents were her friends before her father was assassinated,...