Indochine

A great film from a mysterious world

Sinopse

In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Devries, and her adopted Vietnamese daughter Camillevare the three points of a cross-cultural romantic triangle. As the struggle against European imperialism sweeps Indochina, Jean-Baptiste and Camille have to choose sides and Éliane faces the emotionally difficult challenge of raising the child of her daughter and ex-lover.

7.0
1992
Released
2h 39m

Status

Released

Original Language

Revenue

$29,600,000.00

Keywords

#vietnam
#civil war
#love of one's life
#parent child relationship
#nationalism
#adoption
#arranged marriage
#plantation
#longing
#saigon
#naval officer
#indochina
#extramarital affair
#vietnamese
#theater troupe
#french colonialism
#exotic locale
#1940s
#1950s
#1930s
#adopted daughter
#french navy
#revolutionaries
#nationalist separatism
#powerful woman
#harvest workers
#tragic heroine
#plantation owner
#french indochina war
#indochine
#rubber plantation
#fugitive lovers
#mother and daughter love same man
#french naval officer

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Reviews

@Geronimo1967over 1 year ago

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,