Pornotropic
7.0
6 votes·2020
·53m
·MovieDocumentaryHistory
Overview
When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt. Meanwhile, in Indochina, France was suffering its first military defeats in its war against the Việt Minh, the rebel movement for independence.
Keywords
based on novel or bookracismforced prostitutionwoman directorfrench colonialism1950swhite supremacyportrait of an artistindochina warfrench writer
Cast
Romane Bohringer
Self - Reader
Ann Laura Stoler
Self- Anthropologist
Françoise Vergès
Self - Politologist
Alain Ruscio
Self - Historian
Boulomsouk Svadphaiphane
Self - Writer
Marguerite Duras
Self - Writer (archive footage)
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