The Quiet American
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The Quiet American (1958)
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 27, 2021
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Miramax
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michael Caine & Brendan Fraser | |
Performer: | Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Šerbedžija, Tzi Ma, Robert Stanton & Holmes Osborne | |
Directed by | Phillip Noyce | |
Edited by | John Scott | |
Screenplay by | Christopher Hampton & Robert Schenkkan | |
Original story by | Graham Greene | |
Composition by | Craig Armstrong | |
Produced by | Staffan Ahrenberg & William Horberg | |
Director of Photography: | Christopher Doyle |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Superbly controlled, passionate....Caine makes his towering performance look casual...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Director Phillip Noyce landed a beautiful one-two punch with this and Rabbit-Proof Fence, two political films with politics in the background and delicate human storytelling in the foreground.
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Combustible Celluloid
The Quiet American is a lovely little mover, barely breaking into a sweat as it dances its dreadful dance of love and need to the backing tune of political unrest, moral ambiguity and subterfuge.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 5/5 --
Além de trazer Caine em uma de suas melhores atuações, esta belíssima adaptação do livro de Greene combina com perfeição a tensão dramática de um triângulo amoroso e a complexidade política do maior teatro de guerra das décadas de 50 a 70.
Cinema em Cena
...This is intelligent grown-up entertainment on both a political and a humanistic level...
USA Today
Rating: 4/5 --
Oscar nominations it richly deserves, not least for Michael Caine, whose performance as an English reporter goaded out of his comfortable, opium-clouded, ex-pat lifestyle ranks among the very best of his career.
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Empire Magazine
...There are compelling performances....Caine brings a touching sense of vulnerability...
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
Set in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1952 during the French Indochina war, THE QUIET AMERICAN is based on the mystery story by Graham Greene, and directed by Phillip Noyce. A middle-aged British reporter for the London Times, Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine), has been working in Vietnam, covering politics and enjoying the local culture. He lives with a beautiful young woman, Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen), a taxi dancer who he rescued from that undesirable profession. He cannot marry her, because he is already married to a Catholic woman in London who does not believe in divorce. But he truly loves her. When a young American doctor, Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser), falls in love with Phuong, threatening to take her from Fowler, everything changes. Not only is Fowler's romantic life put in danger, but he begins to uncover disturbing information about the U.S.'s involvement in the war.
An intriguing and atmospheric love story as well as a riveting mystery, THE QUIET AMERICAN features top-notch performances from Caine and Fraser, who maintain an eager intensity throughout the film. Combining the mysterious beauty of Saigon with the strangeness of the war, the film is suspenseful and effective.
An intriguing and atmospheric love story as well as a riveting mystery, THE QUIET AMERICAN features top-notch performances from Caine and Fraser, who maintain an eager intensity throughout the film. Combining the mysterious beauty of Saigon with the strangeness of the war, the film is suspenseful and effective.
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- Sales Rank: 27,313
- UPC: 191329202760
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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