Bard SummerScape
Film: The Sea Wall
July 29, 2012
Bard SummerScape
July 29, 2012
Tickets: $8
2008; directed by Rithy Panh; screenplay by Panh and Michel Fessler, based on a novel by Marguerite Duras
In French Indonesia in the 1930s, a widow (Isabelle Huppert) and her two children must strive to protect their rice fields from the encroaching ocean. Along the way, they struggle with the corrupt colonial authorities. French (subtitled). 115 minutes.