Un barrage contre le Pacifique (2008)
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Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Randal Douc, Stephane Rideau, Lucy Harrison, Vincent Grass
A widow fights to protect her rice fields from typhoons as her children dream of escaping their miserable life.
The story
In French Indochina in the early 1930s, Madame Dufresne, a widow, struggles to rebuild dams meant to protect her rice fields from typhoons sweeping in from the South China Sea. Her children, Joseph and Suzanne, are preoccupied with escaping their miserable existence and the family bungalow, which stands amid unhealthy marshlands. They hope to find a better life in the city, setting their desire for escape against their mother's effort to defend the family's land and livelihood.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
In French Indochina in the early 1930s, a widow, Madame Dufresne, struggles to rebuild dams to protect her rice fields from typhoons sweeping in from the South China Sea, while her children, Joseph and Suzanne, think only of escaping their miserable existence and the family bungalow, set amid unhealthy marshlands, in the hope of finding a better life in the city.
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