Key Crew
Director
Régis Wargnier
Producer
Jean Labadie, Éric Heumann
Editor
Agnès Schwab, Geneviève Winding
Screenplay
Erik Orsenna, Louis Gardel, Catherine Cohen
Keywords
vietnam
civil war
love of one's life
parent child relationship
nationalism
adoption
arranged marriage
plantation
longing
saigon
naval officer
indochina
extramarital affair
vietnamese
theater troupe
french colonialism
exotic locale
1940s
1950s
1930s
Reviews from TMDB
This is a sort of French equivalent of the British Merchant Ivory films that showcases the decline of a colonial influence in the early 1950s tempered with a bit of inter-racial romance. This time it the wealthy "Éliane" (Catherine Deneuve) who owns a large rubber plantation and adopts young local ...
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