Great acting, great travelogue, draggy second half.

Rating: 7/10 (14 September 2003)

Both the lead actors do a tremendous job, as they must when what they register on their faces has to carry the second half of the movie. But after the first ten minutes or so of these scenes, I understand their feelings and begin to count the hours they have yet to spend with each other before his plane leaves. (I'm also puzzled by why a sophisticated, well-educated young woman can't find anything to stimulate her intellectually in such a novel and rich culture.) The travelogue value of the film pretty well compensates for the unnecessarily repetitious bar- and hotel-room scenes, however.