Ciel Rouge
2017 film by Olivier Lorelle
Ciel rouge (literally, 'red sky') is a French film written and directed by Olivier Lorelle, shot in 2015 and released in 2017. It is set in the first Vietnamese offensive against French colonial rule and follows the fate of a French soldier and a young Viet Minh rebel whom he frees.
Synopsis
In 1946 in Vietnam, at a French army base in the jungle, Philippe, a young recruit (played by Cyril Descours), has to guard a female Viet Minh prisoner, called Thi (Audrey Giacomini). Philippe had signed up to bring peace to an unknown country of dense forests and spectacular mountains but his ideals collapse when he is told he must torture and kill a young Vietnamese woman fighting for independence. Horrified by the torture to which she will be subjected and her potential execution, he frees her then himself deserts into the jungle. Thi guides him through the uninhabited forests to safer places, during which journey she lets drop her guard, allowing herself to put aside her political ideals for romantic and sensual experience, while Philippe loses his military mindset to be closer to her ideals, though more through love than conviction. However, while he dreams of a romantic idyll with her and their future children, she decides she will not rest until the revolution is successful.
Cast
Cyril Descours : Philippe
Audrey Giacomini : Thi
The only other named actors in the final credits are Nguyen Huy Khuong, Charles Mugnier and Dinh Minh Chien.
Production
Development
Olivier Lorelle is a former professor of philosophy, who began writing film scenarios (especially for Rachid Bouchareb); in preparation for this film he undertook considerable research into the lives of women of the Viet Minh, above all using the biography of Xuân Phương Ao Dai: Du couvent des Oiseaux à la jungle du Viêt-minh by Danièle Mazingarbe. Lorelle's basic intention was to follow an "impossible" love story during a war: a soldier, fascinated by his enemy's courage flees with her.
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