The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
Country: AUS/US
Technical: col/scope 114m
Director: Peter Weir
Cast: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt
Synopsis:
An Australian reporter and his diminutive photographer are both affected by the rise to power of Indonesian president Sukarno, though in different ways. The former sees it as a way to make a name for himself, helped by his relationship with a British diplomat; the latter finds himself more and more identifying with the oppressed people.
Review:
The film is good-looking and well acted, but its politically confused narrative pulls in too many directions at once, whether romantic drama or humanitarian intrigue, and it is hard to feel for the characters.
Country: AUS/US
Technical: col/scope 114m
Director: Peter Weir
Cast: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt
Synopsis:
An Australian reporter and his diminutive photographer are both affected by the rise to power of Indonesian president Sukarno, though in different ways. The former sees it as a way to make a name for himself, helped by his relationship with a British diplomat; the latter finds himself more and more identifying with the oppressed people.
Review:
The film is good-looking and well acted, but its politically confused narrative pulls in too many directions at once, whether romantic drama or humanitarian intrigue, and it is hard to feel for the characters.
Country: AUS/US
Technical: col/scope 114m
Director: Peter Weir
Cast: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt
Synopsis:
An Australian reporter and his diminutive photographer are both affected by the rise to power of Indonesian president Sukarno, though in different ways. The former sees it as a way to make a name for himself, helped by his relationship with a British diplomat; the latter finds himself more and more identifying with the oppressed people.
Review:
The film is good-looking and well acted, but its politically confused narrative pulls in too many directions at once, whether romantic drama or humanitarian intrigue, and it is hard to feel for the characters.