Chris Knight: With its pretty but low-budget production values and its wartime research setting, Red Joan may put you in mind of The Imitation Game
Talk about a double agent. The first thing you need to know going into Red Joan is that the woman on the poster, Dame Judi Dench, is not the star of the film. She plays old Joan Stanley, and mostly that requires sitting down and looking tired.
Does she ever! In Lindsay Shapero’s screenplay, based very, very loosely on the life of British civil servant and KGB informant Melita Norwood, Joan independently hits on the idea of uranium extraction through centrifugal technology. And she makes a mean cup of tea. We know from the opening frames of director Trevor Nunn’s film, set in 2000, that Joan has been arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. Her barrister son refuses to believe it, even after she serves him tea in a Che Guevara mug. But the flashbacks leave little doubt. The real story is how she came to it. Was it a honey trap? Money? Political fervour? Misguided patriotism?
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