The versatility of Benedict Cumberbatch shines through in this story that is academic and predictable.
13 nov 2021 . Updated at 05:00 h.
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The versatility of Benedict Cumberbatch (and his hyperactivity, with more than 90 characters in two decades), which also dresses Dr. Strange from the Marvel franchise as Sherlock Holmes for the series Sherlock, the life of a memorable Alan Turing in Deciphering Enigma (2014), as now to the entrepreneur Greville Wynne for The english spy. The latter two are their most complex and best-worked creations, apart from other tolls to pay in front of the camera, the actors often turned into mercenaries with few options to show off, either because of routine scripts, or because of directors unable to extract those nuances from them. those in which the viewer recognizes an actor in a state of grace. Is the case. Academic film, very much in the British way in formal and tonal (Much of the shooting was done in Prague, which is the same for London as for Moscow), although the shadow of the Spielberg of The bridge of spies (2015), it seems long and is an inevitable reference.
It is a pity that they have given up the climax of the forced exchange of spies when the Wall, opting for a faster solution, equally credible, but devoid of the suspense that the spectators would have appreciated. Real case whose edges have been known as the handy declassification of documents occurs. In the early sixties, when the Cuban missile crisis, which was on the verge of nuclear catastrophe (and consequent third world war), the aforementioned Wynne, an engineer, frequently traveled to Moscow on business, and there he met the colonel Oleg Penkovsky (a great Merab Ninidze) linked to the arms industry and in the process of disaffection with the Party and its peripheries. For quite some time, Greville brought his countrymen (and the CIA) with very valuable information that, in part, mitigated the attitude of Nikita Jrushchov. The outcome is predictable, but remains in gender constants, powered by a Cumberbatch that even had to lose weight for greater realism. It is worth it (and a pity that the tsunami of premieres of these weeks has reduced it to another anecdote on the billboards).
«THE ENGLISH SPY»
[«THE COURIER»]
RU-EE.UU., 2020.
Director: Dominic Cooke.
Intérpretes: Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley, Angus Wright, Kirill Pirogov, Elina Alminas, Joseph Balderrama.
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