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indochine by Christie Dickason ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 30, 1987 A sprawling romantic novel in the epic mode (first published in England last year under the title The Dragon Riders) about a half-caste heroine who finds love and adventure in a deeply atmospheric Vietnam.
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Sep 1, 1987 · Young Nina, a half Vietnamese, half French teenager--takes over her father's opium empire after he escapes to the Asian jungle while the French are forced out of Vietnam, Ho begins his takeover of the south, and America builds up its disastrous defense of the domino theory.
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Dec 25, 1992 · Dec. 25, 1992 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. Regis Wargnier’s lush and poignant “Indochine” (at the Royal and the Colorado) is a sweepingly romantic historical saga, at once intimate and...
Indochine (French pronunciation: [ɛ̃dɔʃin]) is a 1992 French period drama film set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s. It is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille, set against the backdrop of the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement.
Feb 26, 1993 · "Indochine" is an epic tale, a big, long (2 1/2 hours) sprawling story of a French woman and her adopted Indochinese daughter, set largely during the 1930s against the backdrop of French-occupied Indochina (which later became Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia).
Feb 5, 1993 · There are many good things in this film, not least the sense of time and place: French Indochina, later Vietnam, from the years of colonial calm to the days when the French withdrew and the beautiful country became an American trauma.
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Dec 24, 1992 · Without seeming to age a day from 1930 to 1954, Miss Deneuve moves through "Indochine" more as an observer than as a participant. Her Eliane/Marianne is not an embodiment of the ideals of...
