This film won the best foreign language film at the 65th Academy Awards.
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Indochine
Meta 2022-01-18 08:02:41
In the last years of the French occupation of Vietnam, the French lady Ariana (played by Catherine Deneuve) ran a rubber plantation in southern Vietnam. She adopted the Vietnamese princess Camille (played by Linh Dan Pham) whose parents had died. ), the two live on each other. Ariana falls in love with the young Vietnamese colonial naval officer Jan Baptis (Vincent Perez), but then Jan and Camille fall in love. Camille vowed to marry to Zhan, and ran away from home to follow Zhan to Long Island in northern Vietnam. On the way, Camille was hunted down for the manslaughter of a French officer, and the two began to flee. On the way, they gave birth to their son Etienne. In the end, the two were arrested and the son was brought up by his grandmother Etienne. Zhan refused to return to the country for trial and committed suicide in indignation. Camille was released from prison due to an amnesty. When Ariana went to take her home, Camille left the home without hesitation and became a staunch Vietnamese national independent communist. A few years later, when Etienne saw her mother who was a member of the Vietnamese delegation participating in the Geneva negotiations again, the two were already indifferent.
This film won the best foreign language film at the 65th Academy Awards.
This film won the best foreign language film at the 65th Academy Awards.
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Elbert 2022-04-22 07:01:48
If you want to add ideology to all Western colonial movies, I think it should be the centralism of Western civilization. I don't want to talk about this cliché as "boring" like a chinoiserie. Perhaps we should face up to the deep-seated nostalgia and even self-deprecation of the fading ideology of self-advantage in the way of interpretation by Western artists, which is the eternal source of artistic creation.
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Laurie 2022-03-15 09:01:07
To make a movie about the former colony as a former colonist. The perspective of this movie is very interesting. It reveals the sorrow that can't help but regrets the glory of the old days and makes people want to snicker. Catherine Deneuve’s beauty does not need to be said, but after all, she is not forgiving and tired. Vietnamese girls are the kind of oriental beauties identified by Westerners, but the tango scene made me change. She is so beautiful
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Jean-Baptiste: At age ten one doesn't know the world needs to be changed.
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Eliane: And I didn't know... I hadn't wanted to see, that she was in love, the way one loves the first time. Nothing would stop her.