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Indochine (1992)

Catherine Deneuve , Vincent Perez , Régis Wargnier  |  PG-13 |  DVD
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (112 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh Dan Pham, Jean Yanne, Dominique Blanc
  • Directors: Régis Wargnier
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: March 7, 2000
  • Run Time: 159 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (112 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 6305730997
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #50,871 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Indochine" on IMDb

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Régis Wargnier's 1992 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film is a bit like watching paint dry, despite its exotic locale and lead performance by the legendary Catherine Deneuve (Belle de Jour, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg). Deneuve plays a wealthy French landowner, born and raised in Indochina, from 1930 until 1955, the year of a Communist takeover. The brewing political changes bound to upset her fortune and destiny find an even more personal parallel in her relationship with an adopted daughter (Linh Dan Pham), who grows up and becomes independent. The outline of this scenario sounds pretty good, but the film is flat and unworthy of its star. --Tom Keogh

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Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez. This Academy Award-winning story traces the passionate lives of a French woman and her adopted daughter in revolutionary colonial Vietnam. 1992/color/155 min/PG-13/French/subtitled.

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85 of 86 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Beauty and Sorrow June 29, 2005
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This deeply felt and emotionally rich portrait of a country about to change forever is one of the most beautiful films ever made. It is elegant and opulent in its visual presentation and subtle in its human tale of heartbreak. This film has the majesty of morning sunlight on water we dare not shield our eyes from for fear we will miss one moment of its glory.

Director Reigis Wargnier has created a masterpiece of epic beauty, showing us the country of Vietnam when it existed as the French colony Indochine. He shows how and why the communist uprising was so popular and the way of life it threatened. It does not make judgements but shows the human drama and the heartbreak caused by a way of life that existed and the one that was coming to change it.

Wargnier accomplishes all this in a slow and visually stunning portrait of one family in Indochine. The story is centered around the magnificent performance of Catherine Deneuve as French rubber plantation owner Eliane Deveries, and the equally terrific Linh Dan Phan as her adopted Indochine daughter Camille. The contrasts of Eliane's cool elegance and Camille's young and sensual beauty is like a mirror for the country itself as Wargner shows the difference between the French and those that serve them.

Eliane runs her rubber plantation with the help of her 'coolies' and it appears to be her entire life except for her daughter Camille. But Eliane's cool outward elegance only masks the repressed emotions she hides from others. Her affairs have been casual and she believes indifference is the secret to surviving love. But that indifference changes dramatically as she finally falls hard for young French Naval Officer Vincent Perez (Jean-Baptiste Le Guen).
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57 of 59 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Love and History November 21, 2001
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From the opening sequence of a royal funeral to the last shot of Deneuve in Switzerland, this movie had me enthralled. It has everything that makes a movie exceptional: strong acting from its leads, beautiful cinematography, a romantic and emotionally wrenching love story, a tense historical backdrop, beautiful actors and a well-plotted storyline. This movie draws you in, pulling you into that beautiful and passionate world of 1930's Indochina. (Indochina was the collective name of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos when they were still under French control)

The story revolves around a powerful French, plantation owner Eliane (Deneuve), her adopted Indochinese daughter Camille (Pham) and the French naval officer who romances these two women, Jean Baptiste (Perez). The movie starts off with Eliane having an illicit affair with the young Jean-Baptiste, only to have her heart broken when the officer starts feeling claustrophobic in their relationship. Unfazed, Eliane carries on with her life, running a lucrative business and raising the lovely Camille into the ways of the French. But things go awry when Camille and Jean-Baptiste accidentally meet. Believing that Jean-Baptiste saved her life, Camille falls head over heels in love with her mother's former lover. Thinking it in her daughter's best interest, Eliane uses her influence on the government to have Jean-Baptiste sanctioned to some remote outpost of Indochina. But a strong-willed Camille defies family and society and ventures into the countryside, alone, to join Jean-Baptiste. Along the way, Camille discovers first-hand the sufferings of her people under the French. When the two young lovers reunite, it is under circumstances that forces them to flee and hide from the authorities....

I've seen this movie more times than I can count, and everytime, it never fails to move me. Deneuve is gorgeous as ever and her acting is superb. She plays the scorned lover, worried mother and stern manager with amazing elegance and restraint, without making her character look stiff. She definitely deserved that Best Actress nomination. Vincent Perez is perfectly cast as the passionate Jean-Baptiste. With his dark, good-looks and amazing acting talent, he easily conveys all the ambiguities, and later on, the passions of Jean-Baptiste. But the real discovery here is Linh Dam Pham. She is stunningly beautiful as Camille and does so much with so little. Her role is underwritten, but with her sincerity and talent, Camille comes off alive and full of passion. A mere glance here and there and you see everything that Camille is feeling. Her Camille is an unforgettable heroine.

There is also amazing chemistry between the actors. Deneuve and Perez sizzle in their scenes. It is easy to see the passion that drove these two into their affair. But the most unforgettable and emotionally-charged scenes are those between Perez and Pham. Simple gestures and exchanged looks convey a deep and abiding love between the two characters. Their scenes in Halong bay can melt any cynic's bitter-shell.

Apart from being a romantic epic, Indochine is a rare honest look at the events that led to Vietnam's independence from France. The bloodshed, the filth, the oppression...it's all there. Nothing is glossed over. Kudos to the French for their honesty and reflection.

This movie should definitely be in any person's video library. When the end credits start rolling, the images will continue to haunt you. By then, you'll be glad you own the DVD. You can play it over and over again to your heart's content.

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86 of 97 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Haunting film.... June 8, 2000
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Sometimes I don't think the critics watch the films they review. I was stunned by this film. The cinematography is brilliant--the colors, the pagentry, the filth, the blood, the dreamy quality of a boat with two lovers drifting through those thousands of little vertical islands that lie off the coast of Asia so faithfully depicted in Chinese brush paintings and Blue Willow porcelein.

Catherine Deneuve is gorgeous. If any criticism can be leveled at the film it is that she is so beautiful, and her clothing so stunning it can be distracting at times. Her young lieutenant lover whose name excapes me (Queen Margot's lover) is smoldering. Her adopted (Vietnamese) daughter is a China doll.

The story takes place in what was French Indochina before WWII, and later became the countries of Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Thailand. The story centers on a rubber plantation owner (Deneuve) and her relationship with her adopted daughter. Deneuve raises the girl to have the European values. The daughter falls in love with a young French Lieutenant who has been until then the mother's lover. The mother does not want her daughter to be involved with this man for a variety of reasons. The daughter runs away and links up with the Lieutenant. On her journey, she sees first hand the plight of her native people. She becomes pregnant by the Lieutenant. Events lead her to become involved with the revolution against the French. If this film had been shown to American audiences back in the 1960's it would have been inflammatory. Might have started a peace movement.

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5.0 out of 5 stars PAL Format is not "all region" - it is for the UK, Canada
Be aware that PAL formatted DVDs will not playback on many / most DVD players sold in the USA. This is a wonderful film, but not if you can't view it!
Published 18 days ago by J. Babylon
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpice which North America never knew about
This film has everything that made it true masterpiece.
Just get it and see and it will go to your heart.
Published 2 months ago by E. Musienko
5.0 out of 5 stars A work of art...
I wasn't sure what I was going to get from this movie. I knew only that it starred the delightful Catherine Deneuve (one of those ageless actresses who has managed to maintain her... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Andrew Ellington
5.0 out of 5 stars gift to Aunt
My husband and his Aunt both speak French and are surrounded by a bunch of English only family....Jim got this movie, Indochine, loved the all french dialog, told his aunty, she... Read more
Published 5 months ago by LGB
1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Buy
Be wary of what you buy electronically; I ordered two DVD Videos. Indochine would not play in play in my new Samsung Blueray DVD. The other video played nicely.
Published 6 months ago by Disappointed
5.0 out of 5 stars 5 Star movie, 5 Star service
5 Star movie, 5 Star service i love this movie beautiful boats, beautiful women, historical, wonderful cinematography, affirmation of my political opinions about vietnam. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Timothy P. Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars INDOCHINE
I REALLY ENJOYED WATCHING THIS MOVIE A LOT. I LIKE GOOD ADVENTURE MOVIES IT HAS GREAT ACTORS AND GREAT ACTRESSES.
Published 13 months ago by Hogan_62
4.0 out of 5 stars movie
While this movie is very long (needed some editing) overall it is an intriguing picture of colonial life in pre-communist Vietnam. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Gail Torres
4.0 out of 5 stars Indochine review
I had seen this movie ~10 years ago.I liked it quite a bit.Specially,I liked music.When I found it recently again I decided to purchase it. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Jowita
5.0 out of 5 stars John du Prey - Classical Review
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Her feminine soul laid bare - is the dominant theme in this European classic "Indochine" (In French, 1992, Academy Award and Golden Globe Awards for Best... Read more
Published 15 months ago by John du Prey
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