Directed by:
Peter WeirCinematography:
Russell BoydComposer:
Maurice JarreCast:
Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Joel Lamangan, Agoes Widjaya Soedjarwo, Noel Ferrier, Mark Egerton, Bembol Roco, Bill Kerr (more)VOD (1)
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Guy Hamilton is an Australian journalist on his first job as a foreign correspondent in Indonesia during the 1965 coup against President Sukarno. With the help of his half-Chinese photographer, Billy Kwan, Guy becomes the hottest reporter on the story. As all of Jakarta erupts into chaos, Guy's romance with British diplomat, Jill Bryant heats up. Eventually, Guy must face a major moral dilemma as his relationship with Billy reaches a boiling point. (official distributor synopsis)
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Year of living dangerously had good actors. Young Mel Gibson excelled. But the whole time I had a strange feeling from that movie, like something would turn wrong and the film would eventually show the true Indonesian inferno. With my buddy Enşpígl, we were waiting for it the whole movie, and I fell asleep in the last fifteen minutes. But when I went back to the film and watched the rest, still hoping that something would go wrong, I was shocked. It didn't. So this movie eventually left a pretty negative impression on me, as it is, at first glance, a very attractive drama from an original environment, which is also not twice as awaited, and in the end it can't even interest anything and actually just bores the whole time. Well, too bad...
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A romantic story against a background of revolution in Indonesia with all the regular pluses and minuses of the genre. Occasionally exaggeratedly languishing sequences contrast with great acting performances. Young Gibson is flawless and mainly Sigourney appears in an untraditional guise. But they are dominated by Linda Hunt in the role of Billy. Not a bad movie at all, maybe a bit slow. In any case, Weir can do better.
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