Product description

The World of Suzie Wong [DVD] [1960] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

Price: £5.48
Average customer rating: 4.5

Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780792198697
ISBN : 0792198697
Label : Paramount
Manufacturer : Paramount
Publisher : Paramount
Release date : 2004-06-29
Title : The World of Suzie Wong [DVD] [1960] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actor : Array
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Original release date : 1960-01-01
Region code : 1
Running time : 126
Studio : Paramount
Theatrical releaseDate : 1960
MPN : PARD066084D

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2009-04-28 rating:

I love this film!
I bought this on a whim - I had seen it once, years ago, and had just got back from a wonderful romantic trip to Hong Kong. Now at first glance this may not seem like the perfect 'romance' for reminiscing! But the charm, the power and the subtle but insistant message of this film are such that it doesn't matter. br / br /Looking at it from a distance of 40 years doesn't dim it - the restraint that film-makers had imposed on them, and which they worked within, give rein to imaginative ways to make a point, to suggest a situation, without having to put it right up there on the screen leaving nothing to the viewer's imagination. I love it!

review by: date: 2004-09-02 rating:

Spectacularly un-PC
This film is regularly derided in no uncertain terms by film cognoscenti who spent two weeks once on a far east package tour. The verite cinematography, by Geoffrey Unsworth, is worth the price alone; it camptures a Hong Kong now gone and greatly missed by more than a few--including the same aforementioned sneer artists who, naturally, abhor "globalization." Even today, the insightful visitor to the new and unimproved Far East will recognize the basic truth in the way commercial love in this setting is acted out: I presume everyone involved did extensive research.... The movies failings are of its time--in particular the ending. But you could read a thousand books and learn less than watching this for two hours. Romantic? Of course. Read between the lines. This film is spectacularly un-PC.

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