To the Ends of the World takes place just after the Second World War as the conflict in Indochina hardens. It is a moment of floating transition where the forces present seem indeterminate.
Guillaume Nicloux gives a very carnal dimension to the conflict through the jungle, the teeming city, the dancing scenes, the opium, the bodies imprisoned in cages ; a way of making the stunned, this feeling of unreality that one must feel in the face of the horror and extreme violence of war.
The denunciation of colonialism is not the subject of the film, it is rather on the side of the existential quest.
Gerard Depardieu could emerge from another film already shot with Guillaume Nicloux.
The plot of the film is that of a revenge that turns into a quest. Is Vo Binh Colonel Kurtz (Apocalypse Now) from Tassen? Guillaume Nicloux answers: "Fortunately no".