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Beyond Rangoon

1995

John Boorman

Patricia Arquette, Frances McDormand, Spalding Gray, Adelle Lutz ...

6.0

1,507

Adventure. Drama Burma, August 1988. Sisters Laura (Arquette) and Andy (McDormand) Bowman travel to Burma to unwind, only to have political unrest and a repressive regime spoil the holiday. Dr. Laura (yeah, right) loses her passport and must flee from trigger-happy soldiers with a political dissident (Ko, a real-life exiled Burmese activist) who befriends her. The search for her passport soon becomes a imperiled trek of survival and self-discovery. ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Caryn James The New York Times	"John Boorman's film is determined to be both a thriller with commercial possibilities and, that least fashionable of genres, a serious political film. Amazingly, this hybrid works"	POS
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"[The last part of the film] is so tense that the earlier doldrums are almost forgotten. 'Beyond Rangoon' is an odd movie, brilliant in places, but frustrating all the same."	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Boorman is a director who has a special visual feel for jungles (...) he creates a steamy landscape of natural beauty and human terror (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Boorman is too good a storyteller to let things become rantish or melodramatic, mounting political fury on a tragically beautiful canvas and leaving a trail of cruel images (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"Had Boorman attempted nothing more than an exotic adventure yarn (...) [it] would be perfectly successful (...) The problems start when Boorman (...) turns Arquette's journey into a soul-shattering, existential dilemma"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Boorman catches the look and feel of a country under siege and directs scenes of shattering tension. Still, suspense seems a poor substitute for getting inside a country’s soul"	NEU

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