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06/24/06
Indochine (1992)
72 %
Reviews Counted: 18 Fresh: 13 Rotten:5 Average Rating: 6.3/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 38 mins
Synopsis: Romantic melodrama set during French colonial rule in Vietnam from 1930-1954. French national Eliane thinks of Vietnam as home: she owns a rubber plantation there, and has adopted Camille, the Vietnamese child of Eliane's deceased friends. But mother and daughter are soon at odds over both... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh Dan Pham, Jean Yanne, Dominique Blanc
Director: Regis Wargnier
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A guilty pleasure, this French melodrama could have been called "Saigon, mon amour," a grand, sweeping and sprawling saga about a strong plantation owner (the beautiful Catherine Deneuve)--not unlike Vivien Leigh of Gone With the Wind.
12/12/06
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05/20/03
Top Critic
The tendency of Oscar voters toward visual bombast and style-over-substance filmmaking in the English-language categories also applies in the international competition.
01/10/03
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01/09/02
The concentration instead is on soap opera plotting that gets pretty sappy sometimes, as well as thick, torpid dialogue.
01/01/00
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