The Sea Wall

The Sea Wall (2009)

Drama

The film centers on a young French widow and her two adolescent children as they attempt to carve out a meager life for themselves by farming rice fields alongside the ocean in French Indo-China in the 1930s. Their efforts are hampered each year by the presence of the sea, which invariably floods the fields with saltwater and wipes out the crops. In desperation, the mother realizes that their only hope lies in the construction of a sea wall to prevent continued flooding, but the mother must cut a swath through the local bureaucracy in an almost Sisyphean attempt to make this happen. Meanwhile, her obstinate daughter, Suzanne, draws the romantic obsessions of a well-to-do Chinese gentleman, Monsieur Jo. Though he could easily provide a way out, the possibility of a romantic relationship between Jo and Suzanne could just as easily fall prey to local racial prejudices that would damage or ruin the lives of both.

Director: Rithy Panh

Casts

	Gaspard Ulliel as Joseph
	Isabelle Huppert as Madame Dufresne, la mère
	Stéphane Rideau as Agosti
	Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey as Suzanne
	Vincent Grass as Le père Bart
	Randal Douc as Monsieur Jo
	Lucy Harrison as Carmen
	Duong Vanthon as Le caporal
	Doeun Thenn Nan as M. Khing
	Chorn Solyda as Le père Sok
	Ingrid Mareski as La femme de Pierre
	Louis Arsac as Pierre
	Rosa Meas as A'chan
	Mang Son as A'sok
	Phén Vann as Le chef du village
	Jean-Pol Brissart as M. Bideau
	Samuel Bartholin as M. Jouve
	Cédric Eeckhout as Jeune agent du cadastre
	Cédric Salze as L'agent du cadastre
	Philippe Garcia as Le capitaine français
	Emmanuel Collineau as Le sergent français
	Reaksmei Sorya as La femme du colonel
	Chantoun Kien as Le chauffeur de M. Jo
	Sophie Provoost as La femme française élégante
	Heylen Unac as La deuxième femme française
	Robert Monet as Le civil français
	Narith Roeun as Le milicien au porte-voix
	André Couderchet as Le passager
	Poline Sok as Le bagnard

Crew