"Visually stunning...irresistible" Vanity Fair.

Winner, Academy Award, Best Foreign Film (1993)
Winner, Golden Globe, Best Foreign Film (1993)

Set in the dying days of French colonial rule in Indochina, this epic, Academy-Award winning period drama stars Catherine Denueve (The Last Metro, Repulsion) as a rubber baroness caught in a love triangle between her adopted Vietnamese daughter and a dashing naval officer. With the flames of revolution gathering around her, the beautiful Elaine(Deneuve) stubbornly presides over the last remnants of French rule in the Orient. But when the matriarch enters a brief affair with the handsome Jean Baptiste (Vincent Perez, Cyrano De Bergerac), her safe, opulent world soon begins to fall apart. Amid the sweeping melodrama and political turmoil, captured throughspectacular location photography, Denueve's cool beauty shines throughout in this dazzling tour de force. Directed by Regis Wargnier (Man to Man).