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- Ambitious, stylish, and ideologically confused, The Year of Living Dangerously falters in its attempts to succeed simultaneously as thriller, romance, and political tract, while also encompassing director Peter Weir's penchant for half-baked mysticism. Still, it's a gripping film.
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“The Year of Living Dangerously” achieves one of the best re-creations of an exotic locale I’ve ever seen in a movie. It takes us to Indonesia in the middle 1960s, a time when the Sukarno regime was shaky and the war in Vietnam was just heating up.
The Year of Living Dangerously had heaps of potential. It is laced with heaps of political intrigue and touches on themes of government transparency, freedom of the press, fascism and third world problems. Yet, unfortunately, it is mostly just a love story.
The Year of Living Dangerously: Directed by Peter Weir. With Linda Hunt, Mel Gibson, Bembol Roco, Domingo Landicho. A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.
- (23K)
- Drama, Romance, War
- Peter Weir
- 1983-02-18
The Year of Living Dangerously is dark in some aspects and light in others and the directing and acting is great and the chemistry and bond between Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver is cool. The story could of been better but the acting made up for it so overall a great film.
- (9)
- Peter Weir
- PG
Both a smart, suspenseful tale of intrigue and a sweeping romance, The Year of Living Dangerously features excellent performances from Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver as a pair of journalists...
- (34)
- Peter Weir
- PG
- Mel Gibson
The Year of Living Dangerously is a 1982 romantic drama film directed by Peter Weir and co-written by Weir and David Williamson. It was adapted from Christopher Koch's 1978 novel The Year of Living Dangerously. The story is about a love affair set in Indonesia during the overthrow of President Sukarno.
Peter Weir’s The Year of Living Dangerously...is an underrated romantic drama and adventure film set amidst Indonesia’s political unrest of the mid-1960s.
