So the movie meme was a success and lots of fun. Thanks to all that guessed - you all have GREAT taste in movies! My list just confirmed to me once again — I luv period films in or about exotic lands.
The only movie that no one guessed is #14 - Indochine starring Catherine Deneuve and Vincent Perez. This movie will transport you to another time and place and is perfect for a grey, rainy day - you’ll get lost in it. I would love for y’all to rent it and let me know what you think. Here are 3 clips from YouTube to tease you and there’s a story synopsis at the end of this post.
Opium scene
Tango scene
Love scene
From Wikipedia: (because I’m too lazy to write my own synopsis)
Indochine is an 1992 Academy Award winning French film that tells the story of a young Indochinese woman named Camille. The title refers to the colony of French Indochina, of which modern Vietnam was once a part. The screenplay was written by novelist Erik Orsenna, script writers Louis Gardel, Catherine Cohen and director Régis Wargnier. It was directed by Wargnier. It stars Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh Dan Pham, Jean Yanne and Dominique Blanc.
Synopsis
The movie begins as Camille, a young girl from an Annamese aristocratic family, is adopted by Éliane Devries after her parents die in a plane crash. Perhaps as a consequence of the adoption, Madame Devries owns and runs a large rubber plantation that employs indentured laborers, and where she raises Camille as her daughter. Madame Devries meets and has an affair with a French Navy officer Jean-Baptiste. In an accident, a French police officer almost kills Camille, and she is rescued by Jean-Baptiste and she too falls in love with him. Madame Devries has Jean-Baptiste sent away to protect Camille from being hurt.
Camille goes through with an arranged marriage to Tanh, a young man who was studying in France and supports the Communists. After one day of marriage, Tanh allows Camille to leave and look for Jean-Baptiste up north. Camille travels with a Vietnamese family, and reaches the island where Jean-Baptiste is. The island is being used as a slave market, and Camille ends up shooting a French officer when Jean-Baptiste tries to take her away.
Camille and Jean-Baptiste sail away to a secret cave and are rescued by the Communists. Tanh arranges to smuggle the two lovers into China with a Communist theatre troupe. One day when baptizing their new son Étienne alone, Jean-Baptiste and Etienne are captured by the French. Madame Devries takes Étienne, but Jean-Baptiste is murdered by French agents because he knows too much.
Camille is captured and sent to prison. She is later released but, rather than return home to her mother and son, she resolves to fight for her country’s independence.
Years later Madame Devries and Étienne return to France. Étienne, now grown up, gets a chance to meet his natural mother, Camille, who is part of the Geneva Conference which will bring about Vietnamese independence. However, Étienne does not meet Camille because he sees Madame Devries as his mother since she raised him.
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