To the Ends of the World

To the Ends of the World (Les Confins du monde, 2018) is a French war drama by Guillaume Nicloux, available to watch online on iFILM. Indochina, 1945: soldier Robert Tassen is the lone survivor of a massacre that killed his brother in front of him.

One man wants revenge, but the war comes from every direction — the Japanese army on one side, Vietnamese rebels on the other. Robert pushes deep into the jungle hunting an elusive insurgent leader. Gaspard Ulliel plays a soldier who slowly turns into the thing he is chasing. A young Vietnamese woman, Maï, makes him question what he is really fighting for.

Gérard Depardieu turns up in a small, sharp role. Shot in the actual jungles of Vietnam, the film traps you in its wet, suffocating heat. This is slow, heavy cinema about the gap between killing and avenging. Stream To the Ends of the World (2018) online on iFILM.