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Shadow Dancer (2012)

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Country: GB/EIRE
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: James Marsh
Cast: Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen

Synopsis:

1993: against the backdrop of tentative peace negotiations a member of the security services succeeds in manoeuvring a young Irish woman with an IRA record into informing on her fellow operatives, but his superiors soon show themselves prepared to leave her in the lurch in favour of their longer-standing own source.

Review:

There is a neat twist in store for this atmospheric personalised drama, but the sequence of events at the climax is almost too elliptical in its presentation. Still, it is refreshing to see familiar material played out in this fashion: dour, flatly lit and with long passages shorn of dialogue, with the result that Owen raises his stock after a decade of tawdry genre fare.

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Country: GB/EIRE
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: James Marsh
Cast: Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen

Synopsis:

1993: against the backdrop of tentative peace negotiations a member of the security services succeeds in manoeuvring a young Irish woman with an IRA record into informing on her fellow operatives, but his superiors soon show themselves prepared to leave her in the lurch in favour of their longer-standing own source.

Review:

There is a neat twist in store for this atmospheric personalised drama, but the sequence of events at the climax is almost too elliptical in its presentation. Still, it is refreshing to see familiar material played out in this fashion: dour, flatly lit and with long passages shorn of dialogue, with the result that Owen raises his stock after a decade of tawdry genre fare.


Country: GB/EIRE
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: James Marsh
Cast: Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen

Synopsis:

1993: against the backdrop of tentative peace negotiations a member of the security services succeeds in manoeuvring a young Irish woman with an IRA record into informing on her fellow operatives, but his superiors soon show themselves prepared to leave her in the lurch in favour of their longer-standing own source.

Review:

There is a neat twist in store for this atmospheric personalised drama, but the sequence of events at the climax is almost too elliptical in its presentation. Still, it is refreshing to see familiar material played out in this fashion: dour, flatly lit and with long passages shorn of dialogue, with the result that Owen raises his stock after a decade of tawdry genre fare.

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