The Sea Wall (2009)
1h 55m
Running Time
January 7, 2009Release Date
The Sea Wall (2009)
1h 55m
Running Time
January 7, 2009Release Date
Plot.
The film centers on a young French widow and her two adolescent children as they attempt to carve out a meager life for themselves by farming rice fields alongside the ocean in French Indo-China in the 1930s. Their efforts are hampered each year by the presence of the sea, which invariably floods the fields with saltwater and wipes out the crops. In desperation, the mother realizes that their only hope lies in the construction of a sea wall to prevent continued flooding, but the mother must cut a swath through the local bureaucracy in an almost Sisyphean attempt to make this happen. Meanwhile, her obstinate daughter, Suzanne, draws the romantic obsessions of a well-to-do Chinese gentleman, Monsieur Jo. Though he could easily provide a way out, the possibility of a romantic relationship between Jo and Suzanne could just as easily fall prey to local racial prejudices that would damage or ruin the lives of both.
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Cast & Crew.
Isabelle Huppert
La mère
Gaspard Ulliel
Joseph
Astrid Bergès-Frisbey
Suzanne
Vincent Grass
Bart
Randal Douc
Monsieur Jo
Stéphane Rideau
Agosti
Lucy Harrison
Carmen
Chorn Solyda
Le père Sok
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 7, 2009
Original NameUn barrage contre le Pacifique
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 55m
Genres
Wiki.
The Sea Wall (French: Un barrage contre le Pacifique) is a 2008 film by Cambodian director Rithy Panh in a French/Cambodian/Belgian co-production. The film opened on 7 January 2009 in France. It was adapted from the 1950 novel The Sea Wall by Marguerite Duras. The novel had previously been adapted as This Angry Age by René Clément in 1958.
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