Réalisation:
Peter WeirPhotographie:
Russell BoydMusique:
Maurice JarreActeurs·trices:
Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Joel Lamangan, Agoes Widjaya Soedjarwo, Noel Ferrier, Mark Egerton, Bembol Roco (plus)Résumés(1)
A la veille d'une tentative de soulèvement des communistes, Guy HAMILTON, jeune correspondant d'une radio australienne, arrive en Indonésie dans l'espoir de décrocher un scoop. Complètement isolé, il peut cependant compter su rla collaboration de Billy KWAN, cameraman professionnel qui lui obtient une interview avec l'un des chefs rebelles et qui lui présente Jill BRYANT, séduisante Attachée de l'Ambassade Britannique. Leur passion sera intense, dans un pays en plein troubles politiques, dont Guy ne perçoit que très progressivement la gravité. (texte officiel du distributeur)
(plus)Critiques (2)
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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