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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Dir. Tomas Alfredson, 2011.
This is an amazing movie--a thriller almost without action, a spy movie with almost no wet work, a drama in which the main character doesn't speak at all for nearly the first twenty minutes. I've never read the book on which it's based, which is apparently drawn from real life (the historical version of the mole at the top of the Circus, as it's called here, blew John le Carre's cover when le Carre was a British field agent), though now I very much want to. Short verdict: AMAZING, SEE IT NOW.
( The Circus ain't what it used to be )
This is an amazing movie--a thriller almost without action, a spy movie with almost no wet work, a drama in which the main character doesn't speak at all for nearly the first twenty minutes. I've never read the book on which it's based, which is apparently drawn from real life (the historical version of the mole at the top of the Circus, as it's called here, blew John le Carre's cover when le Carre was a British field agent), though now I very much want to. Short verdict: AMAZING, SEE IT NOW.
( The Circus ain't what it used to be )