BLACK COMEDY AT ITS BEST

Rating: 10/10 (28 February 2018)

Superb production and superb acting. Anyone who knows Armando Iannucci's work in recent years (The Thick of It, In the Loop and Veep) will see how he has developed. In this film he has brought together an excellent cast from different acting disciplines from comedy actors to Shakespearean actors and it totally works. Simon Russell Beale is excellent at Beria. There are no poor roles here, it all fits together. The soundtrack is also great in its own right playing homage to Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky and feels so right.