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 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,
9 Feb 2006
rotten:
A good, romantic melodrama that suffers more than most good, romantic melodramas in not being much better than it is.