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.
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,
20 May 2003
rotten:
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.