• Jan 07, 2009
  • 115 min
  • Full-HD

The Sea Wall (2009)

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.

Category
Country
Cambodia France
Companies
Catherine Dussart Productions

Gaspard Ulliel

Joseph

Isabelle Huppert

Madame Dufresne, la mère

Stéphane Rideau

Agosti

Astrid Bergès-Frisbey

Suzanne

Vincent Grass

Bart

Randal Douc

Monsieur Jo

Lucy Harrison

Carmen

Ingrid Mareski

une cliente occidentale du restaurant « Chez Bart »

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