Continuing our coverage of the upcoming Toronto Film Festival, check out the first clip for Judi Dench's period set drama RED JOAN in which she plays Joan Stanley, KGB’s longest serving spy in Britain.
EVERYONE HAS THEIR REASONS Judi Dench plays her as a retired scientist living in today's London
who gets arrested for crimes done decades ago. Sophie Cookson plays her
younger version back in 1938, when she was a new student at Cambridge,
where a
Sophia Cookson plays Joan Stanley in her youth
chance encounter with Sonya (TerezaSrbova), an alluring fellow
student, draws her into a circle of politicized youths supporting the
Republicans in Spain and the Soviet dream of a classless society. Joan
falls for Sonya’s brother
Tom Hughes leads the male part of the cast
Leo (Tom Hughes), a dashing idealist in search
of adventure. When the Second World War begins, Joan goes to work for
Max (Stephen Campbell Moore) at a top-secret British intelligence
project of great interest to Leo.
Red Joan will premiere at Toronto Film Festival next week
Joan is soon facing several difficult
choices: between national loyalties, between belief systems, between
men. Somewhere in all this, she will also discover her tremendous
potential
Red Joan is based on a real story, and I like movies of this kind. It reminds me of the poisened russian spies at Salisbury, Who did it? Was the criminal caught? It's not enough just to point at Russia as being behind the poisening. Even the Oscar winner Judy Dench will not be able to cover the incompetence of British Intelligence on that matter.
the west blames Russia for everything, it's a recipe they've been using for so long to pacify their naive citizens for all their own misdeeds and crimes.
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Oh, a tangled web we weave getting sucked into politics and love. Does look like a good watch!
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DeleteRed Joan is based on a real story, and I like movies of this kind.
ReplyDeleteIt reminds me of the poisened russian spies at Salisbury, Who did it? Was the criminal caught? It's not enough just to point at Russia as being behind the poisening. Even the Oscar winner Judy Dench will not be able to cover the incompetence of British Intelligence on that matter.
the west blames Russia for everything, it's a recipe they've been using for so long to pacify their naive citizens for all their own misdeeds and crimes.
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