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13 September 2011 3:30 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Swedish director Tomas Alfredson captures 70s Britain superbly in his new film. National psyche is often best left to foreigners

Whether we like it or not, it often takes a foreigner to make us see who we are. As I watched Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the quintessentially British spy story directed by Swedish film-maker Tomas Alfredson, at the Venice film festival, how fascinating it was to see how well a Swede had captured Britain and (a certain fringe of) British society in the early 1970s. Espionage may be a French word; it is nonetheless a British forte.

Gary Oldman's Smiley and John Hurt's Control are superbly cast and so are their MI6 colleagues and foes Ciaràn Hinds, Colin Firth, Toby Jones, Benedict Cumberbatch and Mark Strong. Together, and directed by Alfredson, they lead the audience not only into the maze of a masterful plot by John Le Carré but, »

- Agnès Poirier

12 March 2011 10:49 AM, PST | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »

This weekend, the stormy, deluxe new version of Jane Eyre opens, and in just about every way the rituals that have long attended the mounting and marketing of a lofty romantic period piece have been duly observed. The film’s star, Mia Wasikowska, is a ravishing and talented up-and-coming classy It Girl of the moment — just as Gwyneth Paltrow was 15 years ago when she first set hearts aflutter in Emma (1996), and Helena Bonham Carter a quarter of a century ago when her stately carriage and wistful dark eyebrows anchored in A Room with a View (1985). Audiences, I have no doubt, »

- Owen Gleiberman

2 items from 2011