Indochine

An epic story,well acted, directed and filmed.Winner of the best Foreign Film Oscar in 1992. In Francais, with English.What's it about? A lot, far more than can be put into what is a long film. The result is a beautiful but glancing blow summing French colonial Indochina by giving the outline of a life and the varied conditions it was lived. A clash of culture in a colonized country. Exposing some of the benefits and abuses. Love/ hate relationships, personal and political.Think: Out of Africa goes French Indonesia, and double the complications.Catherine Deneuve, in a primary role as the narrator. Deneuve's career spans more than 120 films. She plays a complicated character. Elegant, captivating.If you like big movies, foreign places, love stories, history. It's completely worth the rental. I saw it in 92 and I was just as pleased to watch it again. Watch it in a double feature with 'The Lover' and see two very different views of roughly a same time and place. One a film that goes to a history of the place, one to a very personal experience born of that place. My opinion and I could be wrong.

Why don't they make films like this anymore? The history is very important. Like another reviewer, I saw it when it was in the theaters, but do not remember the story. Catherine DeNeuve has to be THE most beautiful actress to grace the screen ever. She's all class. I watched it primarily for her performance. The colors in the background (the sets?) are gorgeous. The furnishings are delish. That red + white toile wallpaper plus the red furniture--SO beautiful. Her jewelry is exquisite (she looks great in green jade!) The costumes are wonderful (I love that era of women's clothing.) I will have to watch this again when I'm looking for a love+conflict+beauty fix.

My family grew up in French Indochina. I was a child at the end of French Indochina. "Indochine" is the most authentic film that has ever been made about what it was like in French Indochina. I believe that Catherine Deneuve had her best rôle in this film. She is at her peak. She is gorgeous, radiant, and at her most amateur as an actress. The cinematography is superb. The actors are truly believable. The film composer is brilliant. The beginning of the film where Catherine Deneuve is holding hands with the little Vietnamese princess, her newly adopted daughter, at a seaside funeral for Catherine's princely Vietnamese best friends, must be one of the greatest film openings. Truly moving. I had tears in my eyes. I am a Vietnamese aristocrat. The film "Indochine" shows the end of the world of my parents and my infancy. Catherine Deneuve's greatest film in my opinion.

Package design and artwork was done 2018 so I imagine this is the restored version circa 2011. It certainly looks like it. Beautiful picture and audio. French language with English and Chinese subtitles. Comparing this to my original DVD disc shows a remarkable improvement to my eyes. One of my favorite pictures. If I was of any help please give a helpful click. Thank you. RichardNote: 2nd attached picture is not a screenshot but, rather, flipside of case art.

This isn't an easy movie to watch, then again nothing about empire and one culture dominating and belittling another culture is easy or fun. This movie shows the lives of the French in Vietnam and of the native Vietnamese people just as the revolution against the French was starting build. Beautifully acted and shot, just have to be in the right mood for such a heavy subject.

One of the best stories ever written and filmed. My wife and I were both in Vietnam in 1967-1968, and went through the Tet Offensive for four days under direct fire and grenade attacks on the villa next door to our villa. It was a horrendous period in our lives. But, happily, we survived it.

Had seen this years ago and was so impressed with it that we rented it again so that my husband could see it. It is a beautiful, well done dramatic story that will not give you the opportunity to get bored. It is one of those movies that you could watch multiple times. Highly recommend!

An older film (1990s), but a continuing story, a trilogy actually, moving to "The Quiet American", then to the as-yet not filmed "Saigon Bridal Dreams". The consumption of a country's natural resource (rubber & latex plantations of Indochina; now Vietnam), and the personal struggles of those people who, against sometimes great odds, persist to fill their wishes & dreams. Catherine Deneuve is asked in one scene, why persist to run the operation. "I like the smell of rubber", she replies.

Often, afer a decade since a film is launched, cheap DVD editons get made.........Thse films need to support good big screen images and great sound transfer.This DVD has both - so I am very satisfied.

Always liked the Films of...Catherine Deneuve. In this film she give a very moving performance, the camera work is excellent, and the scenery is so interesting to watch. Indochine now being called...Vietnam.If you like the films of Catherine Deneuve...you will like this. A film you will watch again and again.

This film encompasses many themes, and is overall a very fufilling movie. I really found this movie inspirational in my studies of french. This movie really teaches one who is interested in the end of the French Colonization of Vietnam. The symbolic relationship of Catherine Deneuve with her adopted daughter is particularly moving when you examine it on two levels. One, the emotional seperation of a mother from her daughter. Two, this seperation also illustrates the Vietnamese people's choice to turn away from the French rule. In essence, when the daughter chooses to leave her french mother, it displays the choice to become one with her people and to turn away from the ideals even of her adpoted mother. Overall I believe that this movie is one which should be viewed by all those who are interested in Vietnam and the signifigance of the French colonization there.

Surreal cinematography, Ballet like sequences- slow & full of ethos define this gold tinted romance starring Catherine Deneuve & Vincent Perez . It is soulfully tragic love triangle with a mother and daughter falling in love with the same man.....naturally it all goes sad,bad & hopelessly tangled ! Vietnam is a country mangled by war and passions of its past tangling with the fury of the present....people trying to find their way out of oppression , choices that left families torn asunder, lives desolate and a future that isn't as gold as promised.The film is almost dreamlike with emotions that run fast & furious.I found it hauntingly sad and painful at times but I would see it again.

Good film, but a bit too long, unnecessarily so. The end was disappointing, not very strong and intense as one might expect.