Premise: The Sea Wall (French: Un barrage contre le Pacifique ) is a 2008 film by Cambodian director Rithy Panh in a French/Cambodian/Belgian co-production. The film opened on 7 January 2009 in France. It was adapted from the 1950 novel "The Sea Wall" by Marguerite Duras. The novel had previously been adapted as "This Angry Age" by René Clément in 1958.
Hypothesis: It was adapted from the 1950 novel "The Sea Wall" by Marguerite Duras. 50's movies were not as good S movies in the decades that followed.