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Against the backdrop of Vietnam's struggle to win independence from the French, Regis Wargnier's 1993 film Indochine presents a personal drama wrought with all the elements of a true epic: a mother's love, a daughter's betrayal, and the war that tears them apart. The symbolism in Wargnier's film is almost too obvious. Isabelle, a French plantation owner played by Catherine Deneuve is thwarted by her adopted Vietnamese daughter, who leaves her to find true love (incidentally, Isabelle's former lover) and join the Communist resistance movement...
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...