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Pornotropic

Pornotropic (2020)

2020-09-30 · 53 min · Rating 7.00/10 (6 votes)

When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt. Meanwhile, in Indochina, France was suffering its first military defeats in its war against the Việt Minh, the rebel movement for independence.

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1950s based on novel or book forced prostitution french colonialism french writer indochina war portrait of an artist racism white supremacy woman director