Many years ago, some people brought back imitation CD perfumes from Vietnam. They were a little rougher than those from Paris, and the bottles were also marked as made in Vietnam. The French are gone, but the technology has left a little bit of it, just like the French buildings and streets still erected on the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, as mixed with traces of the US-Vietnam war decades ago, silently telling their legends.
The smoky land is full of smoke, and the French lady Lily owns the oak manor and wealth in their Indochina, as well as their beloved Vietnamese adopted daughter, Came. The young naval officer was attracted to Li, and Li also fell in love with the young handsome boy. The different pursuits of the two led to separation, but fate made his daughter fall in love with the former lover by accident. The kind-hearted officer was transferred to the border away from the city, and Kamy followed. Witnessing the miserable lives of the people on his own land along the way, Camay shot and killed the brutal French leader and James, who lived a fugitive life and became a revolutionary. On the one hand, Li is searching endlessly for hunting with the French, and on the other is a romantic exotic love.
Catherin Deneuve uses his own language to slowly tell the story of that land. Just like Meryl Streep in "Out of Africa", the aerial photography of Halong Bay in the film is also very similar to the filming of the vast savannah in "Out of Africa". The same story about two women in the colony, the same finally leaving, the same old age alone.
Vincent Perez has indeed lived up to the reputation of a French lover, his handsome face when he was young is simply an emotional sculpture. He is too idealistic, full of sympathy for the weak, and too sensitive. Such a person is destined to become a tragedy to become a soldier. At the Sino-Vietnamese border, the Communist Party of Vietnam, who was responsible for leading him and Kamy to escape to Yunnan, asked Jean, do you know why it is called Yunnan? Let's say it is at the southern end of the cloud. After getting accurate affirmation, Vincent Perez smiled innocent but melancholy, which made people confused and sentimental. Finally, after being arrested by the French army, he betrayed the Communist Party of Vietnam in order to see his son for the last time, and committed suicide by shooting himself in the hut where He Li had been lingering.
France, a naturally romantic clan, their love is as romantic and casual as the nature given to them by God. Having sex with many noble women who are older than yourself, but becoming the husband of noble women, completely violates Chinese ethics and morals. Just like what Aunt Came said to Li, you don’t understand us just like we don’t understand your French love. But the arrogant France didn't even bother others to understand their love patterns.
The daughter he rescued so hard has become a staunch revolutionist fighting for Vietnam's independence. Camey, who had gone to the motherland with all his heart, took him to France and entrusted his son to Li forever. She sold the manor, and for the last time, a large piece of rubber grove that had been painstaking for most of her life slowly dripped white liquid in her sight.
Li told the story to Camey's son on the shore of Lake Geneva. On this day in 1954, the Geneva Conference will announce the independence of Indochina. Li turned to face the silently flowing Lake Geneva. It was a French woman's nostalgia and remembrance of Indochina, perhaps also the soft voice of the whole France to the past world.
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