Quiet American
(the)
Genre:
psychological drama
With: Michael
Caine (Thomas Fowler), Brendan Fraser (Alden Pyle), Do Thi Hai Yen (Phong)
Director: Phillip
Noyce
Release: 2002
Studio: Giai Phong Film Studio, IMF Internationale
Medien und Film GmbH & Co. 2. Produktions KG, Intermedia Films et al.
Rating: PG
MBiS score: 8.1/10
The Politics of
Love and War
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Story-line: the
year is 1954, the location is Vietnam and a war of attrition rages on in the
countryside between French and communist forces. Thomas Fowler, a British
journalist, covers it all from Saigon where he lives comfortably with his
mistress Phong. Things do change, however, with the arrival of an American
doctor named Alden Pyle…
Pluses: an
able cast led by the always interesting Michael Caine, a gripping story (based
on a Graham Greene novel), an exotic decor.
Minuses:
none really.
Comments:
there’s a bit of everything in this captivating and evenly solid film that plays
like a metaphor of French – and later American – intervention in Indochina. If you
have missed this modest but striking movie when it came out, feel free to catch
it now!
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