Sunday, December 04, 2011
PERESTROIKA / GLASNOST
What is not known is why Russia folded its tents and the US/Reagan set up "star wars".
Today's film is the espionage story under the surface.
A KGB Colonel works with a lowly, amateur French attache to send top secret documents back to the West to show how much the Russians knew about the US defenses (everything) in an attempt to defang the Russian monolith.
Sounds heavy and it is but Christian Canon has made a film about a friendship and how it evolves under these high pressure conditions. Great performances from all and sundry.
The photography is first rate and the background activity of Russian life is rendered in gorgeous colors the bely the nasty underpinnings. Some great, inventive photography. Sometimes requiring a rewind and a second look to see how they did "that".
Toward the end, a first class chase and thriller as the schemes fall apart on all sides. The people become central as they really have been throughout the story.
I would not mind seeing this again. A 4 out of Netflix5.
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