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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, finds George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a
recently retired MI6 agent, doing his best to adjust to a life
outside the secret service. However, when a disgraced agent
reappears with information concerning a mole at the heart of the
service, Smiley is drawn back into the murky field of espionage.
Tasked with investigating which of his trusted former colleagues
has chosen to betray him and their country, Smiley narrows his
search to four suspects - all experienced, skilled and successful
agents - but past histories, rivalries and friendships make it
far from easy to pinpoint the man who is eating away at the heart
of the British establishment.
An acting masterclass from the crème de la crème of British film
(Colin Firth (The King's Speech), Tom Hardy (Inception), Mark
Strong (Kick Ass), Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) and inspired
direction from Let the Right One In’s Tomas Alfredson make this
gripping and tense adaptation of John le Carré’s classic
novel essential viewing.
From .co.uk
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Adapted from John le Carré’s uniquely British 1973 espionage
novel, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, is set in the analogue
conditions of the Cold War, a time when cassette tape and Telex
were your only gadgets and where middle-aged spies exchanged
looks of cordial hatred--and the occasional loyalty--like 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 called in from the cold to hunt
down one of his own--a Soviet mole in the top ranks of the leaky
secret service that runs MI5 and MI6. Once inside, his
investigations are simultaneously professional and deeply
personal: digging around for one double-crossing colleague
selling secrets to the Russians only unearths another ing
with his wife. Le Carré’s London hasn’t been updated so much as
back-filled with autumnal 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, 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
ed British cars or shelf-sized offices. George Smiley has a
natural home in Oldman, who, like Smiley, has a self-effacing
control of his craft--hiding himself in outrageous villains or
declining a credit entirely, as he did in Ridley Scott’s
Hannibal. With its atmospheric drab and novelistic pace, Tinker,
Tailor, Soldier, is the kind of chamber-piece that suits
showy ensemble performances, but Oldman’s turn as Smiley is the
most subtle in recent history. --Leo Batchelor