Indochine [M]

Director: Regis Wargnier

Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh Dan Pham

Indochine intends to be the French Gone With the Wind, a story of romance and separation, told against the backdrop of a ruinous war. The French, of course, have their own ways of approaching such epic topics, and this movie is heavier on boudoirs and chic, lighter on bluster and battle, than the American classic. There are many good things in this film, not least the sense of time and place: French Indochina, later Vietnam, from the years of colonial calm to the days when the French withdrew and the beautiful country became an American trauma. This period is largely seen through the eyes of the owner of a French plantation (Catherine Deneuve), her adopted Vietnamese daughter and the daughter's son. (Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times)

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Internet Movie Database listing for Indochine.