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It is French Colonial Vietnam in 1929. A young French girl from a family that is having some monetary difficulties is returning to boarding school. She is alone on public transportation when she catches the eye of a wealthy Chinese businessman. He offers her a ride into town in the back of his chauffeured sedan, and sparks fly. Can the torrid affair that ensues between them overcome the class restrictions and social mores of that time? Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras.
An elderly French authoress, while writing her memoirs, is narrating the story of her first love. The year of that story is 1929, the place southern Indochina. Her mother and her two brothers lived in the house that came with the mothers poor paying teaching job, while she, across the Mekong River, lived in a boarding school dormitory in Saigon. The girl had an uneasy relationship with her family, largely because of her mothers inexplicable favoritism of her eldest brother, who was selfish, egotistical and thieving. The girl and her younger timid brother secretly wished he was dead. That year, she began a relationship with a Chinaman, who she met on the Mekong River ferry. He was western educated in Paris, came from a wealthy family and as such money was no issue for him, and had never worked a day in his life. They entered into their sexual relationship nervously if only because of the taboo associated with a relationship between races, and people of their respective ages (she telling him that she was eighteen, he telling her he was thirty-two). As time progressed, they were more open to the world at least about having a relationship. Her family disapproved of what they knew she was doing, while still savoring the Chinamans showering of money at them. They talked openly to each other about their non-existent future, as she could never marry a Chinaman, and he was already betrothed to a woman from a wealthy family, she who he would not even meet until the wedding ceremony. But both began to think that there was the possibility of a future "them", driven by their passion and desire.
Jane March
The young girl
Tony Ka Fai Leung
The chinaman
Jeanne Moreau
Narrator
Frédérique Meininger
The mother
Arnaud Giovaninetti
The elder brother
Melvil Poupaud
The younger brother
Lisa Faulkner
Helene Lagonelle
Xiem Mang
The chinaman's father
Philippe Le Dem
The French teacher
Ann Schaufuss
Anne-Marie Stretter
Quach Van An
The driver
Tania Torrens
The Principal
Raymonde Heudeline
The writer
Yvonne Wingerter
The writer
Do Minh Vien
The young boy
Hélène Patarot
The assistant-mistress
Frédéric Auburtin
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