Indochine (1992)

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To be honest, it has been a while since I have seen this flick and maybe I should re-watch at some point. Anyway, I always wondered if this movie was successful abroad (it did win the Academy Award for the Best Foreign feature at the time) but, in France, it was definitely a massive critical success.  Indeed, it is basically a French classic dealing with a very specific time when France used to b... read more

Set in 1930 in French Indochina against a backdrop of political tension between the French and Vietnamese. Eliane Devries is the seemingly repressed owner of a prosperous rubber plantation. Her steely exterior, however, is only a mask intended to hide her torrid love affairs from upper class society. But when her adopted Indochinese daughter innocently falls in love with Eliane's secret lover, the scandalous lovers' triangle threatens to destroy their entire family.

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