Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Soundtrack French; English Subtitles
Romantic melodrama set during French colonial rule in Vietnam from 1930-1954. French national Eliane thinks of Vietnam as home: she owns a rubber plantation there, and has adopted Camille, the Vietnamese child of Eliane's deceased friends. But mother and daughter are soon at odds over both romance and politics: Camille has fallen for French naval officer Jean-Baptiste, who was once Eliane's lover, and has also become a revolutionary determined to destroy the French-run government. Tensions deepen when authorities sentence Camille to a French labor camp, and Eliane takes charge of Jean-Baptiste and Camille's baby.
As time passes, it becomes clear that France's reign in Vietnam will soon end -- leaving mother, daughter and grandchild on different sides of the ideological issue...
A passionate story of a French mother and her adopted daughter who fall in love with the same soldier during the communist revolution in colonial Vietnam. Academy Award Nominations: Best Actress--Catherine Deneuve. Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film.
The Columbia TriStar special edition video #80813 is part of a limited edition Academy Awards sell through package that comes with a free copy of "Oscar's Greatest Moments," a classic collection of some of the most memorable moments from Oscar telecasts.
Further funding for the film was provided by Club des Investisseurs, Sofinergie, Sofinergie 2, Investimage 3, and Cofimage 3.
The film begins in 1930 during the years of French colonial rule in what was referred to as Indochina. Many French people, like Catherine Deneuve's character, lived in Indochina their entire life, had never even been to France, and considered their adopted land their home. But the French set up a ruling class system that exploited many of the Vietnamese, in some cases even enslaving them, similar to the British rule in India.
As Marxist ideals started taking hold, especially among intellectuals, the Vietnamese were able to form a solid resistance to French rule. They finally gained their independence in 1954, and Indochina was divided into the countries now known as Vietnam, Cambodia (Kampuchea), and Laos.
Independence caused a civil war between those wanting to see a Marxist government and those (mostly wealthy landowners) favoring a right-wing dictatorship -- which left the opening for America's later exploits in the country during the Vietnam War.
Shot in Vietnam, Malaysia and Switzerland, in Eclair color, Kodak Eastmancolor film, Panavision equipment.
Catherine Deneuve, the film's star, was the model for the statue of Marianne, the French republic's official symbol.
Dialogue French and Vietnamese; English subtitles.
Rated BBFC 12 by the British Board of Film Classification.
Copyright 1992 Paradis Films et La Generale d'Images.
Help provided from Centre National du Cinema Vietnamien.
Indochine Quotes/Excerpts:
"I'll never understand French people's love stories - full of folly, fury and suffering... like our wars." -- Rich Asian Woman
Indochine Reviews:
"...Hauntingly beautiful....A wrenching tale of displacement..."
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"...INDOCHINE is extremely handsome..."
-- Mike Clark, USA Today
"...There are many good things in this film, not least the sense of time and place....Through this film, Deneuve drifts like an angel. She is as beautiful as ever, in the role of a lifetime..."-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Widescreen; Soundtrack French; English Subtitles; Spanish Subtitles; French Subtitles
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Color; Dolby Surround Sound; Dolby Noise Reduction; Letter Boxed; Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Widescreen; Soundtrack French; English Subtitles; Spanish Subtitles; French Subtitles; Subtitled French and Spanish; Closed Caption
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Average Rating: (3.8 out of 5 stars)
Great Movie An excelent movie with drama, intrigue, love, action everything one could want in a movie. One drawback, english sub-titles. Submitted by a reviewer (Miramar, Florida) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo 1 of 1 found this helpful.
Good flick What is a movie? I is a form of media to entertain us for as long as the movie is playing. The history of Indochina or Vietnma..the war nothing matters from real life. When I watch a movie, I watch the movie not compare it to real life events. This is an entertaining movie, Catherine DeNeuve is beautiful as is her "daughter" and Vincent Perez is a fine actor. This is an excellent movie from an acting standpoint but it also is a beautifully filmed movie. The scenery is astounding and you can feel the malaria sinking into your blood. A good movie to watch overall! Submitted by David (NYC, NY, USA) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
awful worst movie ever, big waste of time, id rather have people throw bricks at my head then watch this movie again Submitted by marc (scarsdale new york) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo 0 of 1 found this helpful.
It is educational and very emotional Some of us never knew the history of what is now Vietnam, the depiction of that era is so well done by the actors and the emotional side of the movie is so realistic, specially how the French treated their colonies. I was a little girl in France when my father, a civil engineer borrowed 4 "Indochinois" from the French Military and protected them through his work usage of them. They were so grateful that they made the most beautiful toys made of paper for me and one gave me the picture of a lady who was their Imperatrice at one time. Each of these men had been in their own business in their country and they were so humiliated by the French who recruited them for Military service which was in fact jailing them for their labor.. Cruelty was an every day thing. Ariane Lesmez Submitted by a reviewer (Union City, CA 94587) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo This review is for a different format.
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