Best Picture of the Year

Rating: 10/10 (29 December 2014)

Saw this movie last Saturday (12/27) and really enjoyed it. I really appreciated the cuts between Touring as an adult and a young man in school. Benedict Cumberbatch's performance is certainly Oscar-worthy. Lots of communication with facial gestures and silence. Mark Strong is excellent as the liaison with the other "other service." Very emotionally for me when a young Touring learns that his school chum Christopher is dead. I could not contain my tears of sadness and longing that Alan misses the only love he ever experienced.
Keira Knightly as the "love interest" is also very good. She nailed the values and limitations of the 50s in Britain. Her performance is quite understated.