1949, civil war raged in China and refugees fleeing the conflict Chinese arrive daily in Hong Kong. Widow of a Nationalist officer, the Eurasian doctor Han Suyin is devoted entirely to his work at the Victoria Hospital. She falls in love with an American war correspondent Mark Elliott. Mark is married but living apart from his wife. Their affair caused a stir around them ... Twelve
after The Song of Bernadette , Jennifer Jones found the film's earned him his only Oscar with this flamboyant melodrama. In his pitch, the scenario does not seem to stand out at all from the wave of melodrama invading American cinema during the 50 same for this is the interracial romance between a Western and Asian already addressed in the misfire Sayonara Joshua Logan. The unfolding of the story is rather predictable to anyone who has dabbled in the genre and all seems without any real asperity at first sight. Yet it is this key in any restraint and sensitivity, smooth falsely makes the movie so disturbing.
King Henry will draw on the emotional power of his story in the actual source that inspires. The film is actually adapted from a novel by Han Suyin, Eurasian life lived a tumultuous romance adultery with a corresponding English war. The screenplay by John Patrick gum all the most sour of Han Suyin (she documents in her autobiography Winter Love including his bisexuality) in order to retain sensitivity to edge of the novel. The story depicts the encounter between Han Suyin (Jennifer Jones) Eurasian young widow moved to Hong Kong and dedicated to his job as a doctor and Mark Elliott (William Holden) American correspondent separated from his wife. 
Everything seems to oppose them. She abandoned all her love life after widowhood to devote himself to his task (including the thousands Chinese refugees arriving in poverty in Hong Kong) and do not dream of returning to China to bring its knowledge to serve his country. He is a shadow of passage to keep the lucidity and detachment of a journalist on the background and the dramatic event it is obliged to cover. Their resolutions shatter the budding romance with them. 
falsely mawkish treatment of this passion by Henry King is actually a marvel of subtlety. Too long detached from worldly pleasures Jennifer Jones finally yields fast enough even if she leaves Holden and cache it in the image Runner believed to guess (the true image of Holden playing there on it) will actually act as a lovesick throughout history. So it's a romance story without apparently taking place and worn by King Henry the alchemy of his connects the star couple radiant romantic sequences. 
The grace of his staging, the photo of Leon Shamroy magnifying its technicolor paradise that Hong Kong 40s and magical score by Alfred Newman raise high the most beautiful moments like the interviews on the Hill a two-stroke, where time seems to freeze. Jennifer Jones completely abandons any flamboyance of his game as we know it in productions O'Selznick embodiment of a woman while grace and restraint in Asian port. This duality of the origins of Han Yi expressed in this capacity after his Chinese culture and western side just waiting to ignite. 
We see Holden and rub without fear as she thinks being away from such feelings now, but gradually the armor cracks. King brilliantly brings the moment when everything changes when returning to the beach where Han Yi Mark suddenly asked him to light a cigarette (it was previously denied), the symbol of victory for his side not yielding to more European conveniences to finally live. Holden is close and lights his cigarette started pasting his own, their horns bare face each other and the fade that follows is far more sensual, enigmatic and full of meaning that a more explicit love scene. 
tone smooth and cliché you could feel comes primarily from the King will put his lover in a sort of bubble or anything there than the other. There is thus long walks in the Hong Kong dream (but also passages in China and Macao), where exchange hugs, kisses, words of love and long languid eyes. The problems led to separate our relationship are many, but still covered with a grain designed to demonstrate to what extent they are inseparable. The issue of adultery, which can hold only sometimes in some melodramatic moral issue is dealt with by philosophy and quickly evacuated. Holden is married and his wife refuses to divorce? Whatever Han Yi is a reason and will only warm even if its presence can not be legally united. The notable Western (whose condescension is highlighted at the reception scene at the beginning of film) chatting and trying to stop the career of Han Yi ? She will still join in Macao on the time of his stay. The Chinese accuse accuses him of abandoning his commitment to the benefit of her romance? She admits and plunges over beautiful, no external force will overcome their history. 
no destiny except in the form of historical and political drama surrounding them. The song gives the film's original title Love Is a Many Splendored Thing- (written by Sammy Fain and sung by the Four Aces the film's success to him much the song will be a tube and rewarded at Oscar and music) back loop and a sign of fate obvious heavy on history. 
Every moment must be lived as if it were unique and the last in which this romance that avoids the silliness exacerbated by the grace of William Holden and Jennifer Jones, both of the tops of their photogenic. So this strong bond that enabled them to resist all that will unite them now beyond death in a superb final scene on the famous hill where memories of words and the presence of the absent (and a beautiful butterfly with a symbol) will give the other the strength to continue living. 
Released on DVD Zone 2 French at Fox
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