Indochine
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1992
- 159 min
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1
I never left Indochina.
Camille's hand was ice cold in mine.
Her father and mother had just died.
They had been my dearest friends.
Their plane had crashed
into the ocean.
I had no children.
She had no parents.
became my daughter.
I adopted her.
Prince N'Guyen, his wife and I
had been inseparable.
In our youth we thought...
the world consisted
of inseparable things...
men and women...
mountains and plains...
humans and gods...
Indochina and France.
By adopting Camille
I inherited her parents' land...
increasing the property
my father and I already owned.
The Lang-Sai rubber plantation...
became one of
Indochina's ten biggest.
That was my domain:
No!
Watch it!
Mama! We'll never get it right.
Tomorrow, send away
Mr. Emile's new girl.
Send Hoa away? Why?
Too greedy, too expensive,
bad girl...
mouth too big...
always wants more.
Today it's rice,
tomorrow it's pig...
after that it's buffalo.
Me know many girls
ready to replace her.
Very nice ones,
with smaller mouths.
No. This one you will keep.
Father has never felt better.
He's almost cheerful.
You keep her.
Congaie is no good.
Love costs too much.
But he's happy.
He may never love again.
a lot?
Every morning
for the past month.
Then they're too tired to work
on the plantation, but he's happy.
Rowing is exhausting.
Harder! Harder!
And in this heat!
Your men-- okay, I understand.
But mine?
Still, I hope my sailors beat them!
But, Admiral, it's my crew.
Eliane, we shouldn't give
these people ideas of victory.
I bet you 2,000 piastres.
Fine, but you'll lose.
Oh, stop it!
In your condition!
Some days you drive me crazy.
We haven't done it in a week.
And what do we do at nap time?
That's not really making love.
And be pregnant during monsoon season?
No thanks! Not me!
Time to go all out!
Madame Devries,
how awful for Mr. Emile!
All that training,
and then to lose. How awful!
Like Raymond says, the Indo-Chinese
aren't built for it. Eh, Raymond?
Calm down, Yvette.
They haven't lost yet.
We won!
Admiral, you owe me 2,000 piastres.
Who won? I saw nothing.
Ladies and gentlemen,
the race was won...
by the crew of Madame Eliane Devries.
Crew members...
Lui Van Min,
Phan Van Dong--
Coxswain:
Mr. Emile Devries!A statue of Joan of Arc,
in stucco...
of uncertain origin,
attributed to a student of Bouscasse.
Bidding starts at 600 piastres.
Sorry I'm late, madame.
I almost bought a bedroom set,
but I only liked the bed.
Buy the bed.
Oh, no. The pieces
have always been together.
They shouldn't be separated.
They'll bring good luck
to whoever buys them.
You are poetic.
That's exactly it, Yvette.
You're a poetic person.
Is that what you came for?
Has everyone seen it?
Thank you, Mr. Gabriel.
Painted with great sensitivity.
Starting price, 300.
Three hundred.
- Four hundred.
- Four-twenty.
Four-fifty.
Four-sixty.
Five hundred.
Madame, please let me have
the painting.
They say you're rich.
I'm not.
I can't continue bidding,
but this landscape means a lot to me.
Sit down, sir.
What is your bid?
Well?
- Wait.
- Stop. I'll lend you the money.
Let go!
Tell me why you like it...
and it's yours.
That's enough.
Madame Devries, 500?
I sketched that landscape
dozens of times as a boy.
But I was never satisfied.
It needed...
that valley and hill
in partial shade.
They don't exist.
Me, I wouldn't have dared.
At age ten, one doesn't know
the world needs to be changed.
I need this painting.
I suffocate in Saigon
without the seashore.
I do not parade my feelings
before strangers, as you do.
Especially when something moves me.
All right.
The benefit of the doubt, then.
Sold!
Madame Devries is a collector.
Sold!
Mind your own business!
Me no trafficker.
My madame sick...
I go get medicine.
What is the time?
8:
09, Lieutenant.No boats in the delta after 8:00.
You know what to do.
Stop! That man 's papers are in order!
You're crazy!
They didn't do anything!
In just one year,
they've drained you!
You're already glassy-eyed,
like someone lying in an opium den.
Soon this country will suck you dry.
They'll drown!
Are you proud of yourself?
I followed orders.
I leave indulgence
and generosity to you.
You're like my father.
He always said the same thing.
"Let yourself go.
Follow your instincts."
And he'd disappear
to pursue some passion.
He spread unhappiness
all around him.
I'll never be like that man.
Nobody'll steal what's in my head.
Not even eternal Asia!
Nobody!
You wanted to run away.
You're a deserter. You made me beat you.
beating their children?
You're my mother and father.
Why are you here?
I'm lost.
I took a wrong turn.
Going where?
I'm looking for the occupants
of a sampan the navy sank last week.
I heard it happened near here.
So you're the one
going village to village.
You're wasting your time.
People here won't tell you a thing.
Would you know something?
Maybe.
He's called Liem.
Let him go.
You're scaring him.
His father's fine too.
He came to see me last night.
We talked very late.
I thought the boy had drowned.
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