France | 115 mins | 1992 | T18
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Script writer: Marguerite Duras
D.O.P: Robert Fraisse
Producer: Timothy Burrill, Josée Bénabent-Loiseau, Jacques Tronel
Art designer: Olivier Radot
Composer: Gabriel Yared
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Jane March
Synopsis:
The movie takes viewers back to the sweltering and humid Saigon, with temperatures reaching 35 degrees in the 1920s. It depicts a sensual yet unsettling love story between a fifteen-and-a-half-year-old French girl and a thirty-two-year-old Chinese man. As time passes, life’s pace quickens and youth becomes more nimble, causing fewer people to long for the past. It’s only in our later years that we find the courage to reminisce about memories that are both ancient and distant, yet as vivid as if they occurred yesterday.
Awards:
– 65th Academy Awards: Best Cinematography (nominee)
– Bambi Awards 1992: Best Young Actress
– César Awards 1993: Best Music (nominee), Best Cinematography (nominee), Best Production Design (nominee), Best Costume Design (nominee), Best Editing (nominee)
