
On a rusting cargo ship in the South China Sea, it's the young Polish captain's first command. His mutinous Chinese crew suspect him and his unscrupulous Boss of planning to scuttle the ship for an insurance scam. When the crew abandon ship, the young captain is left alone on board, helpless, anchored in a bay. That night while waiting anxiously on deck, he finds a naked body floating in the sea below, tangled up in the ship's rope ladder. Pulling the ladder, the captain disc... (Full plot summary below)
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On a rusting cargo ship in the South China Sea, it's the young Polish captain's first command. His mutinous Chinese crew suspect him and his unscrupulous Boss of planning to scuttle the ship for an insurance scam. When the crew abandon ship, the young captain is left alone on board, helpless, anchored in a bay. That night while waiting anxiously on deck, he finds a naked body floating in the sea below, tangled up in the ship's rope ladder. Pulling the ladder, the captain discovers a Chinese woman in distress. She climbs on board, saying only "Hide me". Dawn comes a few hours later and so does a search party, looking for a murderer..... (In English & Mandarin.
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| Birmingham Mail Graham YoungCloud Atlas star Zhu Zhu is mesmerising as the stowaway, Li, especially as she is cleverly filmed frequently naked. |
| Contactmusic.comRich Clinehis adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1909 short story ambitiously twists the premise to add a bit of sexual tension, although the plot can't quite sustain itself right to the end. |
| Movie TalkJason BestFudakowski largely jettisons the idea of the interloper as the captain's more assertive double, aiming instead for simmering sexual tension, but Laskey and Zhu's fatal lack of chemistry sinks his attempt to turn the story into a slow-burning romance. |
| GuardianMike McCahillDramatically, alas, it remains rather flat. |
| Time OutTrevor JohnstonAfter a promising start, the story starts to drift between romance, maritime adventure and rite-of-passage tale. |
| Total FilmAli CatterallA Vaseline-lenses romance plonked rudely into what looks like an infinitely more interesting and gritty study of Chinese sailors. |
| Empire MagazineAnna SmithAs Apocalypse Now and The Duellists prove, Conrad tales have been adapted into fine films down the years. This, though, isn't one of them. |
| Little White LiesKathryn BromwichThis loose and wrong-headed Joseph Conrad adaptation is a paragon of the bland literary adaptation. |