Catherine Deneuve, Dominique Blanc, Linh Dan Pham

The film centers on the relationship of the beautiful and imperious Eliane (Catherine Deneuve), a French rubber-plantation owner, and Camille (Linh Dan Pham), her adopted Indochinese daughter. The mot...( read more  read more... )her and daughter are very close until a diffident naval officer, Jean-Baptiste (Vincent Perez) enters their lives. Eliane is in love with him, but Jean-Baptiste and Camille become attracted to each other and fall in love. Thinking that she is doing Camille a favor, Eliane arranges to have Jean-Baptiste transferred to the far-away Tonkin Islands. But Camille flees the plantation to go to the man she loves. As she travels the country, she gains a greater knowledge and respect for the people of her homeland. When the government tears her from Jean-Baptiste and their infant child and arrests her for crimes against the state, she becomes politicized and becomes a supporter of the communists in the country's civil war. As the country rocks in turmoil, Eliane becomes a personification of France, coolly walking amid her peasant workers, neither bowed nor afraid, grimly looking westward.

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PG-13, 156 min.

Directed by: Régis Wargnier

Release Date: June 1, 1992

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DVD Release Date: March 21, 2000

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  • March 26, 2009
    I thought it was excellent! Well done, actually has a plot, and good acting!
  • January 31, 2008
    Lush locations, beautifully shot, romance, deceit and "la Deneuve". What more can you ask for?
  • January 14, 2008
    This has to be one of my favorite foreign film's. Indochine has such beautiful locations in Asia along the actors like Catherine Deneuve. Catherine is radiant in this film as an older wealthy woman whom has an affair with a younger man...check it out!
  • August 8, 2007
    I own this. It's "well done" but cheap.... it's really gimmicky, and almost offensive in it's "romantic" take on a very serious time. Blah.
  • July 27, 2007
    I disagree that this is like watching paint dry -- Accurate or not, it covers a significant period in VietNam's history and after living thru the War, I loved this movie as a background to our conflict, and Catherine Deneuve IS a goddess in this movie!
  • October 31, 2009
    Wonderful in all its aspects
  • June 18, 2009
    Indochine is set in Vietnam in the 1920?s and 1930?s when Indochina was under the waning shadow of French colonialism. It is a beautifully photographed epic love story, richly exotic but dramatically flawed, that was nominated for two Academy Awards in 1992 -- in the Best Foreign...( read more) Film and Best Actress categories. Regis Wargnier directed the film and also co-wrote the script. The film brilliantly contrasts the decadence of French colonial society, thriving off its exploitation of the subjugated Vietnamese people, with the poverty and suffering of the natives. It was an age that finally passed, but not before one trauma gave way to another.
  • June 7, 2009
    It has been now seventeen years after Indochine film release,but I was pleased on every level.The location was beautiful, and so was the cinematography, acting, casting, plot,dialogue all were in beautiful harmony. The director did not hide anything from showing characters who e...( read more)xperience anger, insult, jealousy, and pain.
    It was a romantic film in a different setting than we are used to watch, but the movie has a lot more to offer than only being romantic. It shows the monstrous behavior of the French towards the local people,the Rubber Industry and the rise of Communism. It was the French that got involved in war with Vietnam at first and later to be continued by the Americans in 1969.

    So it was a lesson in history wrapped in a paper of drama romance with marvelous acting and landscapes. I was touched and amazed by this film and I recommend to all who has great taste for good films.
  • April 24, 2009
    A French "Gone with the wind "!!! Deneuve is so good
  • January 10, 2009
    mais il est tellement long ce film!

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