Indochine (film)

Indochine .d.in is a 1992 French film set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 50s. It is the story of liane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille, with the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement set as a backdrop. The screenplay was written by novelist rik Orsenna, scriptwriters Louis Gardel, Catherine Cohen, and Rgis Wargnier, who also directed the film. The film stars Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Prez, Linh Dan Pham, Jean Yanne and Dominique Blanc. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards.

Just after liane wins a wager against the naval commanders Grard Lartigau sculling team, she finds herself bidding against a young French Navy lieutenant, JeanBaptiste Le Guen Vincent Prez, on the same painting at an auction. She is flustered when he challenges her publicly and surprised when he turns up at her plantation days later, searching for the boy whose sampan he set ablaze for suspicion of opium smuggling. Soon they are enveloped in a torrid affair.Out and about in the city, JeanBaptiste witnesses the escape and shooting of a Vietnamese prisoner by a French police officer. Camille Linh an Phm, as teen and adult and her classmates are walking nearby, and as the prisoner falls, he knocks her unconscious, leaving her covered with his blood. JeanBaptiste brings her indoors and cleans off the blood, cutting off her dress in the process and exposing her bosom. Camille wakes up in his arms and falls in love with him at first sight, believing that he has saved her life. Word about the affair gets out, and Camille is taunted at school. ........

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