I have been waiting for this film since I saw bits of it amongst
the publicity trailers, together with some other films taking part in
the Venice Film Festival last September. Quite surprised too that it's
already on it's 2nd run in Spain.
Directd
by Tomas Alfredson, excellent master of spy thrillers and starring
Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Colin Firth, all 3 are amongst those I consider
real good actors, amongst them I especially like John Hurt. Whenever I
find his name in the cast, I don't need to know anything about the
film, what type, who are the co-stars ... I will try to see the film.
Mind you, without an excellent director, many a good actor could be
totally wasted, appearing as mediocre. Not in this case, the 127
minutes just seemed to fly away.
Somebody
should give Jina Jay, the casting director of 'Tinker Tailor Soldier
Spy' an award too. This is the much-heralded remake of John Le Carré’s
1974 spy novel, this version is an adaptation of the former shown in
1979 as TV serialisation of BBC. It's
less posh, less clubby than the TV version. Like The Lives of Others
it looks back at the Cold War era – its cruelties and banalities – with
a clear, cold eye.
It
begins in Budapest with a thrilling, perfectly-executed scene in which
Prideaux (Strong), a senior agent sent by “the Circus” (aka MI6) to
meet a supposed dissident, is gunned down by Hungarian and Russian
officers. Who told them he was there? Back in London, Control (John
Hurt) and his lieutenant George Smiley (Oldman) both resign, but Smiley
is soon secretly rehired to investigate the possibility that a mole is
to blame. So begins the mesmerising intrigue to pin point the Mole
amongst their own.
Even
without the more than fascinating script, the twist and turn of the
complicated plot and the skillful handling of every inch of the film
tape, the acting of the main actors alone was worth every second of my
time.
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