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Heaven and Earth
It is the life of this woman, Lu Lei, who lived in a small Vietnamese village and may be doing well. Things are starting to get quite different when the war breaks out, as more destinations and events emerge. Now, there seems to be a real look at that woman who lived as a freedom fighter, joking, a young mother, a whore at one time, an American wife or something else.
1 February 1952, Arlington, Texas, USA
17 September 1962, Saigon, South Vietnam [now Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam]
27 February 1966, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
1961
18 November 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 September 1960, Washington Heights, New York, USA
26 April 1961, Shanghai, China
March 16, 2002
Touches the heart not only as a cross-cultural treasure but as Oliver Stone's most soulful movie.January 01, 2000
I found this story moving and at times wrenching...Oliver Stone has made his best film about Vietnam.November 21, 2004
What Oliver Stone has created is his Mrs. Miniver for the Vietnam era.January 01, 2000
Stone has a keen directorial eye, and Heaven and Earth is usually interesting to watch.October 30, 2001
Heaven and Earth has the epic scope one would expect from a film of this magnitude, but it lacks much of the narrative strength of Stone's first two Vietnamese tales.October 16, 2004
Overblown, forgettable Oliver Stone epic.March 13, 2015
Some of the parts are undeniably gripping; what gets lost are the characters themselves.October 30, 2001
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...to an extraordinary performance by Hiep Thi Le in the leading role.September 20, 2016
...despite every intention the movie can't quite shake its American male point of view.November 16, 2001
Heaven has so many themes, ranging from Buddhist spirituality to feminism, it ends up with none.June 05, 2004
Mr. Stone tells this tale vigorously, but he has the wrong cinematic vocabulary for his heroine's essentially passive experience.