Based on the novel by Marguerite Duras. Videodisc release of the 2008 motion picture. Special features: interviews with Rithy Panh and Isabelle Huppert ; stills gallery ; trailer. Adapted from the novel by Margeurite Duras. Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Randal Douc, Vanthon Duong, Stephane Rideau, Lucy Harrison, Doeun Thenn Nan, Chorn Solyda, Ingrid Mareski, Louis Arsac, Rosa Meas.
Summary:
Set in early 1930s Cambodia amidst the first intimations of the coming revolution, the film tells the story of an impoverished widow and long-term expatriate (Isabelle Huppert) whose identity is shaken to the core when her teenage children make a break for independence and colonial bureaucrats threaten to take back her paddy fields.
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