Red Joan (2018)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: Trevor Nunn
Cast: Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes
Synopsis:
A former Foreign Secretary dies, and suddenly an old lady's life is turned upside down by allegations that she passed official secrets to the Soviets after the war.
Review:
A well-acted reconstruction of true events, particularly on the part of the two actresses, Nunn's film never quite gives enough voice to the nature of the struggle raging within the soul of our so-called spy. Which, together with the attitude of everyone in the story present that she is simply a traitor, 'nuff said, makes for an ambivalent narrative (she did it because of Hiroshima/she did it for love), until she makes her self-justifying speech to the journalists on her doorstep, clunkily reaffirmed by her repentant son. That said, this is never less than quality drama of the Beeb variety, even if it fails to set the world alight as cinema.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: Trevor Nunn
Cast: Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes
Synopsis:
A former Foreign Secretary dies, and suddenly an old lady's life is turned upside down by allegations that she passed official secrets to the Soviets after the war.
Review:
A well-acted reconstruction of true events, particularly on the part of the two actresses, Nunn's film never quite gives enough voice to the nature of the struggle raging within the soul of our so-called spy. Which, together with the attitude of everyone in the story present that she is simply a traitor, 'nuff said, makes for an ambivalent narrative (she did it because of Hiroshima/she did it for love), until she makes her self-justifying speech to the journalists on her doorstep, clunkily reaffirmed by her repentant son. That said, this is never less than quality drama of the Beeb variety, even if it fails to set the world alight as cinema.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: Trevor Nunn
Cast: Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes
Synopsis:
A former Foreign Secretary dies, and suddenly an old lady's life is turned upside down by allegations that she passed official secrets to the Soviets after the war.
Review:
A well-acted reconstruction of true events, particularly on the part of the two actresses, Nunn's film never quite gives enough voice to the nature of the struggle raging within the soul of our so-called spy. Which, together with the attitude of everyone in the story present that she is simply a traitor, 'nuff said, makes for an ambivalent narrative (she did it because of Hiroshima/she did it for love), until she makes her self-justifying speech to the journalists on her doorstep, clunkily reaffirmed by her repentant son. That said, this is never less than quality drama of the Beeb variety, even if it fails to set the world alight as cinema.