The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
This thriller/romance is set in Indonesia in 1965, just
before the fall of the Sukarno regime.
 Civil war is breaking out everywhere, and there is endless talk about Communist
guerrillas, military coups, and the death of colonialism.
Mel Gibson is an ambitious but naive Australian radio correspondent who has an
affair with a beautiful British attaché, played by Sigourney
Weaver.
But the film is stolen by diminutive Linda Hunt who plays Billy
Kwan, a half oriental/half European (male) dwarf photographer. Hunt won an Oscar for this, her first film
appearance.
There's plenty of humidity and plenty of atmosphere but
ultimately none of it adds up to anything substantial, and the film drags along
aimlessly.
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