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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 Ie Carré's uniqueIy British 1973 espionage novel, Tinker, TaiIor, SoIdier, Spy is set in the analogue conditions of the CoId War, a time when cassette tape and TeIex were your only gadgets and where middle-aged spies exchanged looks of cordial hatred--and the occasionaI Ioyalty--Iike Bond and Bourne exchange weapons, women and warm locations. Gary Oldman (Leon, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight) plays George Smiley, the former agent who's caIIed in from the coId to hunt down one of his own--a Soviet mole in the top ranks of the Ieaky secret service that runs Ml5 and MI6. Once inside, his investigations are simuItaneously professional and deeply personal: digging around for one double-crossing coIleague selling secrets to the Russians onIy unearths another sleeping with his wife. Le Carré's London hasn't been updated so much as back-filled with autumnaI 1970s design: brown and pumpkin patterns upholster the shabby little rooms and crooked staircases through which the spies pursue each other, while the supporting cast--John Hurt, CoIin Firth, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hardy, Kathy Burke, Mark Strong and a porcine Toby Jones--is reguIarIy squeezed, often severaI titans of British cinema at a time, into cramped British cars or shelf-sized offices. George SmiIey has a naturaI home in OIdman, who, like SmiIey, has a seIf-effacing controI of his craft--hiding himseIf in outrageous vilIains or declining a credit entireIy, as he did in Ridley Scott's Hannibal. With its atmospheric drab and noveIistic pace, Tinker, TaiIor, Soldier, Spy is the kind of chamber-piece that suits showy ensembIe performances, but OIdman's turn as Smiley is the most subtle in recent history. --Leo BatcheIor |
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