Poussière d'empire (1983)
Country: FR/VIE
Technical: col
Director: Lâm Lê
Cast: Dominique Sanda, Jean-François Stévenin
Synopsis:
In Vietnam in the 50s, before Dien Bien Phu, a sergeant and a sister show religious films to the peasantry but are surrounded by Viet Minh in a rainstorm and later shot. Meanwhile a North Vietnamese soldier tries to get a message through to his wife in Saigon.
Review:
Curious amalgam of stories which completely changes direction halfway through. By looking at the Vietnamese suffering in microcosm it achieves a certain vividness and a touch of mysticism.
Country: FR/VIE
Technical: col
Director: Lâm Lê
Cast: Dominique Sanda, Jean-François Stévenin
Synopsis:
In Vietnam in the 50s, before Dien Bien Phu, a sergeant and a sister show religious films to the peasantry but are surrounded by Viet Minh in a rainstorm and later shot. Meanwhile a North Vietnamese soldier tries to get a message through to his wife in Saigon.
Review:
Curious amalgam of stories which completely changes direction halfway through. By looking at the Vietnamese suffering in microcosm it achieves a certain vividness and a touch of mysticism.
Country: FR/VIE
Technical: col
Director: Lâm Lê
Cast: Dominique Sanda, Jean-François Stévenin
Synopsis:
In Vietnam in the 50s, before Dien Bien Phu, a sergeant and a sister show religious films to the peasantry but are surrounded by Viet Minh in a rainstorm and later shot. Meanwhile a North Vietnamese soldier tries to get a message through to his wife in Saigon.
Review:
Curious amalgam of stories which completely changes direction halfway through. By looking at the Vietnamese suffering in microcosm it achieves a certain vividness and a touch of mysticism.