MERRY CHRISTMAS MR LAWRENCE (1982)

Cast

Plot

Digitally remastered widescreen edition of this very intense WW2 Japanese POW camp drama. Bowie is either inspired or insipid, depending on who you listen to, as the self-contained, pale-faced officer who seems to relish the inevitable prospect of the prolonged suffering he faces, exacerbated by camp commandant Sakamoto's obsessive, forbidden feelings for him. Sometimes melodramatic and clumsily symbolic, but hauntingly shot and undeniably powerful.