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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Surround Sound, English, French, Spanish, Subtitled
Catherine Deneuve earned an Oscar nomination for this Academy Award-winning (Best Foreign Language Film, 1992) tale of passion and revolution in colonial Vietnam. Deneuve stars as Elaine Devries, the seemingly repressed owner of a prosperous rubber plantation in French Indochina. Her steely exterior, however, is only a mask intended to hide her torrid love affairs from upperclass society. But when her adopted Indochinese daughter innocently falls in love with Elaine's secret lover, the scandalous lovers' triangle threatens to destroy their entire family. A sensual story of unbridled passion set against the violence of the bloody Communist uprising, Indochine is a historically accurate, emotionally wrenching epic of love and war.
"The photography is the star of this movie." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Indochine sprawls and enthralls..." Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
"Magnificent! Rest assured you will be enthralled." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Editor's Note
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.
Plot Summary
Romantic melodrama set during French colonial rule in Vietnam from 1930-1954. French national Eliane thinks of Vietnam as home: she owns a rubber plantation there, and has adopted Camille, the Vietnamese child of Eliane's deceased friends. But mother and daughter are soon at odds over both romance and politics: Camille has fallen for French naval officer Jean-Baptiste, who was once Eliane's lover, and has also become a revolutionary determined to destroy the French-run government. Tensions deepen when authorities sentence Camille to a French labor camp, and Eliane takes charge of Jean-Baptiste and Camille's baby.| As time passes, it becomes clear that France's reign in Vietnam will soon end -- leaving mother, daughter and grandchild on different sides of the ideological issue...
| Features | Spanish Subtitles | | French Subtitles | | Scene Selection | | Theatrical Trailers | | Production Notes | | English Subtitles | | English 5.1 Surround Dolby Digital | | Talent Files | | Interactive Menus |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Image Entertainment |
| Release Date: 6/24/2008 |
| Running Time: 158 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1992 | | Catalog ID: 27239 | | UPC: 00043396272392 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: French | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], French | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1993) | | | Catherine Deneuve, Nominee, Best Actress | |
British Academy Awards (1994) | | | Eric Heumann, et al., Nominee, Best Film Not In The English Language |
| Memorable Quotes| "I'll never understand French people's love stories -- full of folly, fury and suffering... like our wars." ---- Rich Asian Woman |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...Hauntingly beautiful....A wrenching tale of displacement..." 01/21/1993 p.55-6USA Today
"...INDOCHINE is extremely handsome..." 12/24/1992 p.3D Chicago Sun-Times
"...There are many good things in this film, not least the sense of time and place....Through this film, Deneuve drifts like an angel. She is as beautiful as ever, in the role of a lifetime..." 02/05/1993 p.42 Chicago Sun-Times 6 of 10
There are many good things in this film, not least the sense of time and place: French Indochina, later Vietnam, from the years of colonial calm to the days when the French withdrew and the beautiful country became an American trauma. This period is largely seen through the eyes of the owner of a French plantation (Catherine Deneuve), her adopted Vietnamese daughter (Linh Dan Pham) and the daughter's son, who is raised mostly in France by Deneuve after the mother becomes a revolutionary... The photography is the star of this movie. As the two young lovers run away, hoping to hide themselves in the countless islands of a secret lake, a vast long shot shows their boat as a speck surrounded by magnificent landscape... - Roger Ebert
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