Indochine (1992)

Directed by

Régis Wargnier

Genre

drama film, war film, romance film

Country

France

Runtime

2h 34m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 238 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A French woman runs a rubber plantation in colonial Vietnam. She adopts a Vietnamese girl, and later the girl gets involved with the independence movement.

epicromanticmelancholicslow-burnvisually lushbittersweettensepoignant

What happens

Indochine (French pronunciation: [ɛ̃dɔʃin]) is a 1992 French period drama film set in colonial French Indochina from the 1930s to the 1950s. It 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. The screenplay was written by novelist Érik Orsenna, screenwriters Louis Gardel and Catherine Cohen, and director Régis Wargnier. The film stars Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Pérez, Linh Dan Pham, Jean Yanne and Dominique Blanc. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards, and Deneuve was nominated for Best Actress. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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