Although thoroughly French, Regis Wargnier's INDOCHINE, starring Gallic icon Catherine Deneuve, is as calculated and pre-packaged as anything conceived in contemporary Hollywood.
This florid, would-be epic centers on Eliane (Deneuve), the doyenne of a rubber plantation in French colonial Indochina, and her greatest joy, her adopted Indochinese daughter Camille (Linh Dan-pham). Their rapport is so complete that they regularly wow the other planters at parties with a very
piquant mom-and-daughter tango. Eliane's dignified existence is further enlivened by the appearance of Jean-Baptiste (Vincent Perez), a dashing French officer whose orders initially bring him int...
Released:
1992
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
155 mins