Malvern French Film Centre
English title: Indochine
Director: Régis Wargnier
Certificate: 15
1992
Running time: 2hrs 40mins
French with English subtitles
Set in French Indochina of the 1930s against the backdrop of the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement, Catherine Deneuve is a decadent French plantation owner who adopts a Vietnamese daughter. A tragic love triangle tears them apart and we see the historical human rights abuses, compromised government ethics, and violations of social justice that are the dark side of colonial rule, as well as the seductive pleasures enjoyed by the French elite.
