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Heaven & Earth

Heaven and Earth

1993

Oliver Stone

Hiep Thi Le, Tommy Lee Jones, Joan Chen, Haing S. Ngor ...

6.3

2,792

Drama In this final film of his Vietnam trilogy, Oliver Stone turns his cameras away from the experience of the American combatants to focus on the devastating effect of the war on the Vietnamese people. It recounts the epic journey of Phung Le Ly's life, which began in an idyllic village in Central Vietnam living as her people had lived for thousands of years. When the war broke out, she was plunged into a maelstom, trapped between the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This is the first time [Stone] has tried to place himself inside a woman's imagination, and that he succeeds so well is due partly, I think, to an extraordinary performance by Hiep Thi Le (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Stone tells this tale vigorously, but he has the wrong cinematic vocabulary for his heroine's essentially passive experience."	NEU
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"For all its emotional anguish, however, not to mention teeming movie extras, beautifully framed rice paddies and descending helicopters, it lacks a poetic center."	NEU
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Oliver Stone doesn't quite pull off this epic tale of a vietnamese girl, on either a cinematic level or as an insightful depiction of a woman's life and ordeals (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Stone’s continued obsession with Vietnam bespeaks a demagogic single-mindedness as exhausting as it is illuminating"	NEU
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"This is awful (...) The director resorts to damp sentimentality, cod poeticism and facile preachiness - and it seems to last forever."	NEG

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