The Sea Wall

The Sea Wall (2009)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 2009-01-07
  • User Rating: 5.4/10 from 36 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 55min
  • Language: Français
  • Production Company: Catherine Dussart Productions
  • Production Country: Cambodia, France
  • Director: Rithy Panh
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From 36 Ratings

Summary

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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  • Gaspard Ulliel

    as Joseph
  • Isabelle Huppert

    as Madame Dufresne, la mère
  • Stéphane Rideau

    as Agosti
  • Astrid Bergès-Frisbey

    as Suzanne
  • Vincent Grass

    as Bart
  • Randal Douc

    as Monsieur Jo
  • Lucy Harrison

    as Carmen
  • Ingrid Mareski

    as une cliente occidentale du restaurant « Chez Bart »
  • Duong Vanthon

    as
Production Frédérique Dumas-Zajdela Producer
Directing Rithy Panh Director
Writing Michel Fessler Writer
Writing Rithy Panh Writer
Writing Marguerite Duras Novel
Production Catherine Dussart Producer
Crew Pierre Milon Cinematography
Sound Marc Marder Original Music Composer
Production Cati Couteau Producer
Costume & Make-Up Edith Vesperini Costume Design
Editing Marie-Christine Rougerie Editor

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