[Peace-discuss] Film related to Vietnam

[C. G. Estabrook]

A great film - a picture of Vietnam long before Kennedy’s aerial invasion of the South in 1962: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indochine_(film)>.

Another good film set in the same time and place was made from Graham Greene's excellent novel, ‘The Quiet American’: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quiet_American_(2002_film)>.

It was directed by Phillip Noyce and starred Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, and Do Thi Hai Yen; don’t confuse it with the 1958 film with Audie Murphy and Michael Redgrave - which is much inferior.

—CGE

> On Dec 10, 2019, at 6:17 PM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> The film is Indochine, in French with English subtitles. It was supposed to have taken place in the north, was filmed  mainly in Imperial City, Hue, Ha Long (Ha Long Bay) and Ninh Binh (Phát Diệm Cathedral) in Vietnam. Butterworth in Malaysia was used as a substitute for Saigon. Some parts were filmed in Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion, in George Town, Penang, Malaysia.
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> Hue is supposed to be a must see in Vietnam, and what was portrayed as Saigon in the film was beautiful, though it likely was Malaysia. I’ve been to Malaysia and parts of it are beautiful. 
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> The film won many awards for best foreign language film, in or around 1992 or 93.