Author: Gary Oldman

Brand: Sevilla (Paradox)

Format: DVD + Blu-ray

Release Date: 2012-03-20

Details: Product Description Based on the classic novel of the same name, the international thriller is set at the height of the Cold War years of the mid-20th Century. George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a disgraced British spy, is rehired in secret by his government - which fears that the British Secret Intelligence Service, aka MI-6, has been compromised by a double agent working for the Soviets. ----- Georges Smiley is one of the best agents of the "Circus", headquarters of the British secret services. When he had just retired, the Prime Minister's Office called on him again. The center of Moscow, their sworn enemy, would have a double agent, infiltrated within the Cirque. Smiley is tasked with unmasking the mole among his former colleagues. Adaptation of the best-selling novel by John le Carré. Amazon.ca Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is all sleek, stealthy elegance. High-ranking intelligence officer George Smiley (Gary Oldman) was forced out of service when a mission in Hungary went very wrong, but rumors of a Soviet mole hidden within the agency bring him back into play. If the theory of the former head, Control (John Hurt), is to be believed, the mole is at the very top, one of four senior officers, played by Toby Jones, Ciarán Hinds, Colin Firth, and David Dencik (of the swedish Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). With the help of a lower-ranking agent with a few secrets of his own (Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock) and a field agent who may be a source of disinformation (Tom Hardy, Inception), Smiley slowly draws out the clues he needs to lay a trap for the mole. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy moves gracefully, with brief but unhurried scenes that give a hint of information here, a dollop of involvement there, until the larger picture (painted in a cinematic chiaroscuro of grays, blues, and browns) comes tantalizingly into focus. Don't expect Hitchcock-like suspense, though there are a few anxious sequences; this movie captures the blend of dread and bureaucracy that marks real-life intelligence work. Oldman plays Smiley as uncannily opaque and, on the surface, harmless--but his eyes hold a deep bitterness that can turn sorrowful or cruel. The masterful cast glides through the film, their subterfuges and machinations orchestrated like a dance by director Tomas Alfredson ( Let the Right One In). --Bret Fetzer

UPC: 774212002359

EAN: 0774212002359

Languages: English

Binding: Blu-ray

Item Condition: New