A Most Wanted Man (2014)
Country: GB/US/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 122m
Director: Anton Corbijn
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, Willem Dafoe, Nina Hoss, Daniel Brühl, Homayoun Ershadi
Synopsis:
A German intelligence cell in Hamburg attempts to secure a Chechen illegal immigrant before the police gets hold of him. He holds the key to millions of euros that might tempt an islamic philanthropist to make yet another covert donation to a shipping company that provides funding for terrorist activity.
Review:
Typically dour and procedure-led Le Carré adaptation, a welcome throwback to the bleak days of the 1960s Berlin films, complete with grey colour scheme and baleful officialdom. Hoffman, sporting an all but unrecognisable Germanic voice, is superb in what turned out to be a posthumous performance, while other cast members are variously wasted, and McAdams looks somewhat out of place, as the dishiest and most unlikely bicycle-riding human rights lawyer you ever saw.
Country: GB/US/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 122m
Director: Anton Corbijn
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, Willem Dafoe, Nina Hoss, Daniel Brühl, Homayoun Ershadi
Synopsis:
A German intelligence cell in Hamburg attempts to secure a Chechen illegal immigrant before the police gets hold of him. He holds the key to millions of euros that might tempt an islamic philanthropist to make yet another covert donation to a shipping company that provides funding for terrorist activity.
Review:
Typically dour and procedure-led Le Carré adaptation, a welcome throwback to the bleak days of the 1960s Berlin films, complete with grey colour scheme and baleful officialdom. Hoffman, sporting an all but unrecognisable Germanic voice, is superb in what turned out to be a posthumous performance, while other cast members are variously wasted, and McAdams looks somewhat out of place, as the dishiest and most unlikely bicycle-riding human rights lawyer you ever saw.
Country: GB/US/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 122m
Director: Anton Corbijn
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, Willem Dafoe, Nina Hoss, Daniel Brühl, Homayoun Ershadi
Synopsis:
A German intelligence cell in Hamburg attempts to secure a Chechen illegal immigrant before the police gets hold of him. He holds the key to millions of euros that might tempt an islamic philanthropist to make yet another covert donation to a shipping company that provides funding for terrorist activity.
Review:
Typically dour and procedure-led Le Carré adaptation, a welcome throwback to the bleak days of the 1960s Berlin films, complete with grey colour scheme and baleful officialdom. Hoffman, sporting an all but unrecognisable Germanic voice, is superb in what turned out to be a posthumous performance, while other cast members are variously wasted, and McAdams looks somewhat out of place, as the dishiest and most unlikely bicycle-riding human rights lawyer you ever saw.