A thought provoking , agreeable story , well paced and competently acted. Enjoyable film with intrigue , suspense and historical events . Red Joan (2018) boasts a good cast , such as Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes , Ben Miles and Judi Dench, all of them giving stunning interpretations. Based - very loosely - on a true story , it starts in a picturesque village in England , where Joan Stanley lives in contented and peaceful retirement. Then English-born Joan Stanley (Dame Judi Dench) is detained and interrogated by MI5 , accusing her to be one of the most influential spies in living history . Later on , a series of flashbacks telling past events , in which a young Joan (Sophie Cookson) gets recruited by the K. G. B in the mid 1930s. She successfully transfers secrets to Soviet Russia, and remains undetected as a spy for over a half a century . For Joan - she is How far would you go to protect everything you love?. To Change the World, She Betrayed Her Country.
Based on Incredible true events in which various countries during WWII compete in the nuclear career , as Germany , Russia and US were developing an atomic bomb ; along the way , British agents and undercover Soviet spies enter the picture, and while our starring gets a job at a nuclear investigation project ,which enables them to keep up with the west in the development of atomic weapons , but strange behaviours raise suspicions among colleagues . As the Manhattan Project, in Los Alamos , as mentioned in this film , was an American project of research and development during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons and the famous ¨Fat Man and Little Boy¨ . The picture has substance and intellect enough , containing suspense , intrigue , twists and turns . Although "inspired by a true story" about a spy who has been hiding an incredible past , it is very far from the truth . There are usually extremely well made movies with adequate period piece , fine production values , nicely acted , brilliant cinematography (here by cameraman Zac Nicholson) , evocative score (by George Fenton) and shot but they also play fast and loose with the actual facts as to make them more commercial to the audience . This genre is very popular , especially in the United Kingdom , as they are good award bait and popular with the spectators . The film is pretty well and as an espionage drama it works frankly nice . The tale was really interesting and intriguing , and as far as I'm concerned well filmed , though packs some failures , flaws and tiring , at times . It's a compelling flick , motivating and engaging , however partially unfaithful it is to the events that inspired it . Loosely based on the real-life case of Civil Servant Melita Norwood (1912-2005) , who successfully passed classified information about the British Atomic program to the Russians in the 1940s and 50s . In fact , she was actually imprisoned and Norwood stated the following one : "I did what I did, not to make money, but to help prevent the defeat of a system which had at great cost given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education, and a health service" . The main characters feature Sophie Cookson as a Communist Party sympathizer, becomes employed as a British government civil servant, and Judi Dench who excels in her role as the elderly retired woman whose tranquil existence is shattered as she's shockingly arrested by MI5 , resulting to be one of the most important spies in living history.
This morally empathetic motion picture was well directed by Trevor Nunn . His film debut was Lady Jane (186) ,this was first theatrical film for director Trevor in eleven years , the last had been Hedda in 1975 and the third and final was Twelfth Night or What You Will ; all three pictures are costume period films. Furthermore , he has directed TV films , such as : The Merchant of Venice , Oklahoma! , The three sisters , The Great Hamlets , American Playhouse, Theatre Night , among others. Rating : 6/10 . Acceptable and passable.
Based on Incredible true events in which various countries during WWII compete in the nuclear career , as Germany , Russia and US were developing an atomic bomb ; along the way , British agents and undercover Soviet spies enter the picture, and while our starring gets a job at a nuclear investigation project ,which enables them to keep up with the west in the development of atomic weapons , but strange behaviours raise suspicions among colleagues . As the Manhattan Project, in Los Alamos , as mentioned in this film , was an American project of research and development during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons and the famous ¨Fat Man and Little Boy¨ . The picture has substance and intellect enough , containing suspense , intrigue , twists and turns . Although "inspired by a true story" about a spy who has been hiding an incredible past , it is very far from the truth . There are usually extremely well made movies with adequate period piece , fine production values , nicely acted , brilliant cinematography (here by cameraman Zac Nicholson) , evocative score (by George Fenton) and shot but they also play fast and loose with the actual facts as to make them more commercial to the audience . This genre is very popular , especially in the United Kingdom , as they are good award bait and popular with the spectators . The film is pretty well and as an espionage drama it works frankly nice . The tale was really interesting and intriguing , and as far as I'm concerned well filmed , though packs some failures , flaws and tiring , at times . It's a compelling flick , motivating and engaging , however partially unfaithful it is to the events that inspired it . Loosely based on the real-life case of Civil Servant Melita Norwood (1912-2005) , who successfully passed classified information about the British Atomic program to the Russians in the 1940s and 50s . In fact , she was actually imprisoned and Norwood stated the following one : "I did what I did, not to make money, but to help prevent the defeat of a system which had at great cost given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education, and a health service" . The main characters feature Sophie Cookson as a Communist Party sympathizer, becomes employed as a British government civil servant, and Judi Dench who excels in her role as the elderly retired woman whose tranquil existence is shattered as she's shockingly arrested by MI5 , resulting to be one of the most important spies in living history.
This morally empathetic motion picture was well directed by Trevor Nunn . His film debut was Lady Jane (186) ,this was first theatrical film for director Trevor in eleven years , the last had been Hedda in 1975 and the third and final was Twelfth Night or What You Will ; all three pictures are costume period films. Furthermore , he has directed TV films , such as : The Merchant of Venice , Oklahoma! , The three sisters , The Great Hamlets , American Playhouse, Theatre Night , among others. Rating : 6/10 . Acceptable and passable.