Red Joan is the spy who bored me GlobeArts
Based on a Jennie Rooney novel of the same name and loosely inspired by the life of British KGB informant Melita Norwood,Although the story sounds fascinating – subterfuge! centrifuge! pinkos! – the film is cold fusion. After a student delivers a communist-sympathizing speech, he is told his talk was “very moving.” To which he replies, “I wanted it to be rousing.
Judi Dench plays elderly Joan. After being arrested for espionage that took place decades earlier, her memories serve as flashbacks that begin in 1938, when she was a demure Cambridge co-ed, comely idealist and dedicated neutron enthusiast. Young Joan is played by Sophie Cookson, magnetic in the role. Dench is underused, though. The film’s suspense is waiting on the world-class actress to bust out some chops. It never happens. The spy who bored me, rather.
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