The Honorary Consul (1983)
(Beyond the Limit)
Country: GB/MEX
Technical: col 104m
Director: John MacKenzie
Cast: Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins, Elpidia Carrillo
Synopsis:
A Paraguayan doctor arrives in the small Argentinian town of his youth at a time of conflict between the military Juntas and rebel factions. There, having befriended the British consul and begun an affair with his wife, he is asked by an old acquaintance to perform a service that engenders a conflict of loyalty.
Review:
A classic Greene narrative of political and personal ethics misfires and fizzles regrettably. It is partly a question of casting: Gere should have been okay as a mixed-national, with his swarthy looks, but is unconvincing as a doctor, and Hoskins is an extraordinary choice as the Argentinian colonel. A deeply bleak tale which admits no concessions to commercial factors.
(Beyond the Limit)
Country: GB/MEX
Technical: col 104m
Director: John MacKenzie
Cast: Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins, Elpidia Carrillo
Synopsis:
A Paraguayan doctor arrives in the small Argentinian town of his youth at a time of conflict between the military Juntas and rebel factions. There, having befriended the British consul and begun an affair with his wife, he is asked by an old acquaintance to perform a service that engenders a conflict of loyalty.
Review:
A classic Greene narrative of political and personal ethics misfires and fizzles regrettably. It is partly a question of casting: Gere should have been okay as a mixed-national, with his swarthy looks, but is unconvincing as a doctor, and Hoskins is an extraordinary choice as the Argentinian colonel. A deeply bleak tale which admits no concessions to commercial factors.
(Beyond the Limit)
Country: GB/MEX
Technical: col 104m
Director: John MacKenzie
Cast: Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins, Elpidia Carrillo
Synopsis:
A Paraguayan doctor arrives in the small Argentinian town of his youth at a time of conflict between the military Juntas and rebel factions. There, having befriended the British consul and begun an affair with his wife, he is asked by an old acquaintance to perform a service that engenders a conflict of loyalty.
Review:
A classic Greene narrative of political and personal ethics misfires and fizzles regrettably. It is partly a question of casting: Gere should have been okay as a mixed-national, with his swarthy looks, but is unconvincing as a doctor, and Hoskins is an extraordinary choice as the Argentinian colonel. A deeply bleak tale which admits no concessions to commercial factors.