Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Jean Yanne, Dominique Blanc, Carlo Brandt, Gerard Lartigau, Henri Marteau, Linh Dan Pham

Director: Regis Wargnier

Summary: A woman who runs a rubber plantation in French Indo-China in the 1930's, and her adopted daughter fall for the same French Officer. French dialogue with English subtitles.

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.

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Reviewed by: davybozal24-7
Posted on April 12, 2006 2:14 PM

Nominated for 2 Oscars and 12 French Cesars and Winner of a
Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film , Indochine , a film by Regis Wargnier is a very moving piece of work . Set in Indochina during the
1930's on one of the largest rubber - tree plantations owned by the French colonist Eliane who is a proud and imprudent woman . She
lives with her father and her native adoptive daughter Camille . At an
auction Eliane gets to know the young officer Jean - Baptiste ; after
a short affair she refuses to see him again . So sets in motion a fine
love story .

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Winner of the Academy Award for best foreign-language film in 1992, Indochineis a vast, panoramic love story set in the twilight years of French Indo-China. Comparisons with David Lean are inevitable, considering director Régis Wargnier's use of the setting as a backdrop to the love-triangle between the three main characters. Catherine Deneuve gives a strong, emotionally restrained performance as Eliane, the plantation owner whose colonial paradise is slowly falling apart. Vincent Perez is magnetic yet thoughtful as the young officer Jean-Baptiste, complemented by Jean Yanne's dry cynicism as the Chief of Police knowingly fighting a losing battle for French culture. Linh Dan Pham is affecting as Camille, Eliane's adopted daughter whose journey from aristocratic ancestry to Marxist induction personifies the changing face of South-East Asia in the period around World War Two. Patrick Doyle's score reinforces the expressive sweep of the direction and "orientalisms!" are kept to a minimum.

On the DVDThe 16:9 wide-screen format reproduces best in the domestic scenes, and there are 30 individual chapter points, detailed in the interactive moving menu. The disc also has detailed filmographies for the main cast and director, including an entertaining "gossip" file for Deneuve. English subtitles are optional. A half-hour location report would have been worthwhile, but overall this is a persuasive presentation of one of the few genuine historical-romantic epics of the 1990s. --Richard Whitehouse

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	French
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive Moving Menus, Filmography For Main Cast And Director, Chapter Point Access
Subtitles:	English
Year:	1991
Release Date:	July 30, 2001
Runtime:	160 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	F C D 102
Keywords:	Subtitled, General, Wide, Screen, French, Drama, Indochine
Genre:	Drama