The Tailor of Panama (2001)
Country: US/EIRE
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 109m
Director: John Boorman
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis, Leonor Varela, Brendan Gleeson, Harold Pinter, Catherine McCormack, John Fortune
Synopsis:
Post-Noriega the Foreign Office despatches a secret service type to Panama to provide reassurance that the canal is safe for future use by the major western powers. However, when his source of gossip, a would-be Saville Row tailor married to an American employee of the Panamian president, rightly divines that what he really wants is sensitive information he can exploit for his own financial gain, he obliges with stories of 'invisible opposition' and an impending coup.
Review:
John le Carré venture into Greeneland with sufficient opportunities for the cast to shine, and some pleasing directorial touches, but a scenario that goes woefully awry in the closing minutes. The almost farcical atmosphere surrounding the tailor and his 'man who never was' shenanigans demanded a more hard-hitting, wakeup call dénouement in keeping with the suicide that had just preceded it.
Country: US/EIRE
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 109m
Director: John Boorman
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis, Leonor Varela, Brendan Gleeson, Harold Pinter, Catherine McCormack, John Fortune
Synopsis:
Post-Noriega the Foreign Office despatches a secret service type to Panama to provide reassurance that the canal is safe for future use by the major western powers. However, when his source of gossip, a would-be Saville Row tailor married to an American employee of the Panamian president, rightly divines that what he really wants is sensitive information he can exploit for his own financial gain, he obliges with stories of 'invisible opposition' and an impending coup.
Review:
John le Carré venture into Greeneland with sufficient opportunities for the cast to shine, and some pleasing directorial touches, but a scenario that goes woefully awry in the closing minutes. The almost farcical atmosphere surrounding the tailor and his 'man who never was' shenanigans demanded a more hard-hitting, wakeup call dénouement in keeping with the suicide that had just preceded it.
Country: US/EIRE
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 109m
Director: John Boorman
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis, Leonor Varela, Brendan Gleeson, Harold Pinter, Catherine McCormack, John Fortune
Synopsis:
Post-Noriega the Foreign Office despatches a secret service type to Panama to provide reassurance that the canal is safe for future use by the major western powers. However, when his source of gossip, a would-be Saville Row tailor married to an American employee of the Panamian president, rightly divines that what he really wants is sensitive information he can exploit for his own financial gain, he obliges with stories of 'invisible opposition' and an impending coup.
Review:
John le Carré venture into Greeneland with sufficient opportunities for the cast to shine, and some pleasing directorial touches, but a scenario that goes woefully awry in the closing minutes. The almost farcical atmosphere surrounding the tailor and his 'man who never was' shenanigans demanded a more hard-hitting, wakeup call dénouement in keeping with the suicide that had just preceded it.