Indochine (Full Frame)

VHS, PG13, 180 minutes, COLUMBIA TRISTAR

Catherine Deneuve earned an Oscarﾮ nomination for this Academy Awardﾮ-winning (Best Foreign Language Film, 1992) tale of passion and revolution in colonial Vietnam. Deneuve stars as Elaine Devries, the seemingly repressed owner of a prosperous rubber plantation in French Indochina. Her steely exterior, however, is only a mask intended to hide her torrid love affairs from upperclass society. But when her adopted Indochinese daughter innocently falls in love with Eliane's secret lover, the scandalous lovers' triangle threatens to destroy their entire family. A sensual story of unbridled passion set against the violence of the bloody Communist uprising, "Indochine" is a historically accurate, emotionally wrenching epic of love and war.