Word: wargnier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIRECTOR: REGIS WARGNIER...
WRITERS: ERIK ORSENNA, LOUIS GARDEL, CATHERINE COHEN AND REGIS WARGNIER...
...Regis Wargnier's Indochine takes a gentler, more comprehensive approach. It suggests that the French, at the twilight of their long rule in Indochina, saw themselves not as the region's colonizers -- ravaging its natural and human resources -- but as its foster parents, nourishing a lovely, lorn child with the civilizing bounty of French culture. That, anyway, is Indochine's explicit metaphor. Eliane (Catherine Deneuve), the owner of a rubber plantation, raises Camille (Linh Dan Pham), an orphan princess of Annam, as her own daughter. What could separate these two beautiful women? Only the nationalist uprising of the 1940s...