Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Review of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)

Tomas Alfredson is the director who first came to prominence with 'Let The Right One In', and his passionate and distinctive sympathy with the undead has never been better displayed than in this film. This is an austere, skin crawlingly atmospheric and completely uncompromising adaptation of the cold war espionage novel penned by the great John Le Carre. It has been adapted for the big screen by Peter Straughan and the late Bridget O'Connor.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

The melancholy lead role of George Smiley is taken by Gary Oldman, and pulls of with aplomb the part of the agent who is pulled out of his humiliating retirement and given the task of rooting out a soviet mole who has reached the upper echelons of the British secret service.

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