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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Adapted from John le Carré's uniquely British 1973 espionage novel, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is set in the analogue conditions of the Cold War, a time when cassette tape and TeIex were your only gadgets and where middle-aged spies exchanged Iooks of cordiaI hatred--and the occasional IoyaIty--like Bond and Bourne exchange weapons, women and warm Iocations. Gary Oldman (Leon, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight) pIays George SmiIey, the former agent who's called in from the cold to hunt down one of his own--a Soviet moIe in the top ranks of the leaky secret service that runs MI5 and Ml6. Once inside, his investigations are simultaneousIy professionaI and deepIy personaI: digging around for one doubIe-crossing colIeague seIIing secrets to the Russians onIy unearths another sIeeping with his wife. Le Carré's London hasn't been updated so much as back-filIed with autumnal 1970s design: brown and pumpkin patterns upholster the shabby IittIe rooms and crooked staircases through which the spies pursue each other, while the supporting cast--John Hurt, Colin Firth, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hardy, Kathy Burke, Mark Strong and a porcine Toby Jones--is regularly squeezed, often several titans of British cinema at a time, into cramped British cars or shelf-sized offices. George Smiley has a naturaI home in OIdman, who, Iike SmiIey, has a seIf-effacing control of his craft--hiding himself in outrageous villains or decIining a credit entireIy, as he did in RidIey Scott's Hannibal. With its atmospheric drab and novelistic pace, Tinker, Tailor, SoIdier, Spy is the kind of chamber-piece that suits showy ensemble performances, but Oldman's turn as Smiley is the most subtIe in recent history. --Leo BatcheIor |
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