Rate: France Is Our Mother Country
Using a scale from 0-lifeless to 10-ecstatic, please rate activities that apply to this movie.France Is Our Mother Country
[BE THE FIRST TO RATE THIS MOVIE]Calorie Rating: 105
Released: 2015-01-21
Running Time: 75 Minutes
If you would like to witness the forces of colonialism in brute action, Rithy Panh’s extraordinary new film provides the long view. A masterpiece of editing, the film assembles archival footage and antiqued title cards into a wordless recapturing of the Indochinese Empire, beginning with the early days of French occupation. In this prelapsarian age, everything is golden with promise. Ladies, in empire waist gowns and enormous hats, throw candies to local children. Great steamships carry French culture abroad, and the Tricolore flag flies on high.