Un barrage contre le Pacifique (The Sea Wall). 2008. Directed by Rithy Panh

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Un barrage contre le Pacifique (The Sea Wall). 2008. Belgium/Cambodia/France. Directed by Rithy Panh. Courtesy Diaphana Films/Photofest

Un barrage contre le Pacifique (The Sea Wall). 2008. Belgium/Cambodia/France. Directed by Rithy Panh. Screenplay by Michael Fessler and Panh. With Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel, Astrid Bergès-Frisby, Vanthon Dong, Randall Douc. 35mm. In French; English subtitles. 116 min.

Based on Marguerite Duras’s semi-autobiographical novel of her impoverished childhood in 1930s French Indochina, The Sea Wall stars the brilliant Isabelle Huppert as a widowed mother driven to madness when her colonial farm is ruined by floods and corrupt bureaucrats. Rithy Panh finds in Duras’s novel the simmering tensions of peasant revolt lacking in Réné Clément’s earlier adaptation, This Angry Age (which starred Jo Van Fleet, Silvana Mangano, and Anthony Perkins), portending the gathering storms of war and genocide in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Courtesy Playtime

This film accompanies Rithy Panh.

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