"What could be more unsettling than a man close to death whose profound arrogance drives him relentlessly to hang onto both his power and his writing, to the bitter end?" In the twilight of his second seven-year term, François Mitterrand was alone. Ravaged by illness and abandoned by a large majority of the Socialist Party, who would not forgive him for the disastrous outcome of the March 1993 elections, the Head of State was preparing to tackle a second round of cohabitation with the right wing. However a series of unexpected tragedies and revelations would arise, casting a shadow over the end of his reign…
Melodrama romántico, ambientado en la Indochina francesa durante los años treinta, que narra los cambios que llevaron a la creación del Vietnam a partir de las ruinas del colonialismo. A la hora de ser elegida mejor película extranjera tuvo mucho peso la interpretación de la prestigiosa actriz Catherine Deneuve, que fue nominada al Oscar. Una elegante mujer de ascendencia francesa, propietaria de una plantación de caucho, tiene dos grandes amores: su hija adoptiva y el país en donde vive.
