If you'd forgotten how young Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver once looked, The Year of Living Dangerously is the movie for you. It also happens to be a fine movie. Saw it when it was first released in 1982 but not since. This reminds me to watch it again.
Director Peter Weir was on a role at the time. His prior film was Gallipoli and next up was Witness with Harrison Ford. Weir's best films have a distinct haunting and tense atmosphere about them.
The movie is set during the lead up to, and during, the Indonesian military coup in 1965 that removed President Sukarno. Gibson plays a newly arrived and naive reporter for an Australian TV network while Weaver portrays an employee at the British embassy. In an Academy Award winning performance Linda Hunt is Billy Kwan, a Chinese-Australian man.
The film was banned in Indonesia until 2000.
This video of L'Enfant by Vangelis from the film, triggered memories prompting this post.
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