20 Nights And A Rainy Day

I went to catch this movie today, which is about:-

She was fleeing the West, and he the East. She was European, light-skinned, on her way back from Java, at the edge of the world. Once North-Vietnamese, now a proud Frenchman, he had an apartment in the center of Paris. This film tells the story of their embrace, 20 nights under the Parisian sky, in the shadow of Notre Dame. During these 20 nights they find refuge in each other's bodies; somewhere between the desire of a Midsummer dream and the madness of Bastille Day, they meet, and love, and lose each other in the Parisian night, in the tropical heat, under the Merapi volcano in Java.

This movie is somehow like a history lesson about France, Vietnam, Germany & Java, as it showed how the female lead grew up in Java & Germany and how the male lead got himself to Paris from Vietnam. It was interesting to note how the both of them met in the circumstances that they were in and how they built it up into an intimate relationship from there.

Overall I would give this movie 3.5 out of 5 stars for its history telling & nice views of Java & Paris.