Eliane (Catherine Deneuve) es una elegante mujer de ascendencia francesa, y propietaria de una inmensa plantación de caucho, que tiene dos grandes amores: su hija adoptiva Camille (Linh Dan Pham) e Indochina. Todo cambiará con la entrada en sus vidas del apuesto oficial francés Jean-Baptiste (Vincent Perez)... Épico drama romántico que tiene como telón de fondo la gestación de la revolución comunista cuyo estallido provocó el fin de la colonización francesa de Indochina y el nacimiento del Vietnam en 1954. Consiguió el Oscar a la mejor película extranjera, y la francesa Catherine Deneuve fue nominada en la categoría de mejor actriz.
Made shortly after the referendum on Quebec's independence was held, this documentary illustrates what the politicians' promises were and how the population did not really care nor truly understand what was really at stake, even though just about everyone had an opinion on the subject.
Canadian director Catherine Annau's debut work is a documentary about the legacy of Pierre Trudeau, the long-running Prime Minister of Canada, who governed during the 1970s. The film focuses particularly on Trudeau's goal of creating a thoroughly bilingual nation. Annau interviews eight people in their mid-30s on both sides of the linguistic divide. One tells of her life growing up in a community of hard-core Quebec separatists, while another, a yuppie from Toronto, recalls believing as a child that people in Montreal got drunk and had sex all day long. Annau has all of the interviewees discuss how Trudeau's policies affected their lives and their perceptions of the other side, in this issue that strikes to the heart of Canada's national identity.
The final instalment of this 3-part documentary series about Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque spans the decade between 1976 and 1986. The film reveals the turbulent, behind-the-scenes drama during the Quebec referendum and the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution. In doing so, it also traces both Trudeau's and Lévesque's fall from power.