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The Year of Living Dangerously

A love caught in the fire of revolution.

1982 · 1h 55m · PG Drama, Romance, War
Directed by Peter Weir

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Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people, and also falls in love with a British national.

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A curiously languid affair, rather than the breathless Costa-Gavras-style thriller which was the least one might have expected from this kind of material.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
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A good, romantic melodrama that suffers more than most good, romantic melodramas in not being much better than it is.

Vincent Canby, New York Times

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