Whose Film Is It Anyway?

April, 2000

French Filmmaker Régis Wargnier's Indochine took a potentially fascinating setting--French Indochina before it became independent Vietnam--and did nothing with it. Wargnier has struck again with East-West (Sony Pictures Classics), which makes a turgid soap opera out of another recent chunk of history. In the wake of World War II, the USSR offered to repatriate longtime European exiles but then jailed or executed most of those who returned to their homeland. This film focuses on a young doctor (O...

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