The Sea Wall
Year: 2008Certificate: 12
- Director:
- Rithy Panh
- Cast:
- Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ullie, Astrid Berges-Frisbey
- Running Time:
- 126 mins
- Language:
- French, English
- English Subtitles:
- Yes
- Country of Origin:
- Belgium, Cambodia, France
- Genre(s):
- Drama
- Formats:
The Gulf of Siam, 1931. A young French widow invested unwisely in Cambodian farmland, and now her and her two adolescent children barely eke out a living from the oft-flooded rice fields. In order to save her livelihood, she fights against corrupt colonial bureaucrats and the possibility of entering her daughter into a marriage of convenience.