Indochine

France

1992

159 Min

Color

1.66:1

French, Vietnamese

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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PROD Eric Heumann, Jean Labadie

SCR Érik Orsenna, Louis Gardel, Catherine Cohen, Régis Wargnier, Alain Le Henry

CAST Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh Dan Pham, Jean Yanne, Dominique Blanc, Henri Marteau, Carlo Brandt, Gérard Lartigau, Hubert Saint-Macary, Mai Chau, Thi Hoe Tranh Huu Trieu, Andrzej Sekula, Alain Fromager, Chu Hung, Jean-Baptiste Huynh, Thibault de Montalembert, Eric Nguyen

ED Agnès Schwab, Geneviève Winding

SOUND Patrice Grisolet, Katrina Heaulme, Julie Jouaffre

Synopsis

This story is set in 1930, at the time when French colonial rule in Indochina is ending. An unmarried French woman who works in the rubber fields, raises a Vietnamese princess as if she was her own daughter. She, and her daughter both fall in love with a young French army officer, which will change both their lives significantly. –IMDb

Director

Régis Wargnier

After graduating with a degree in classical letters, Régis Wargnier started out as a freelance photographer before working with Claude Chabrol, as assistant director and assistant operator. During the 70s and 80s, he worked as an assistant director and first unit director on films by Volker Schlöndorff, Valerio Zurlini, Margarethe Von Trotta, Elie Chouraqui, Francis Girod, Patrice Leconte, among others. He got his break thanks to Yannick Bernard, who produced his first two feature films, La Femme de ma vie (Woman of My Life) (1986), which won him the César for Best New Director of a Feature Film, and Je suis le seigneur du château (I’m the King of the Castle) (1989). In 1991, Régis Wargnier directed Indochine, which earned him the Oscar, the Golden Globe and the Goya for Best Foreign Film, as well as five Césars. He went on to make Une femme française (A French Woman) in 1995, a three-time award-winning film at the Moscow International Film Festival, and Est-Ouest (East-West) in 1999… read more

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Lemmycaution

1Sep10

I don't really believe that "Eliane becomes a personification of France" as she is closer to her workers than most of the people at that time. There is one moment when french people call her "red" and she answers "yes, I'm a communist", I don't really believe that french people from Indochina would have answered like that...