Boredom at its loveliest

Rating: 8/10 (27 December 2011)

The Cold War in London 1973. Can any environment be more depressing, ugly and have worse lunch restaurants? Hardly.
Thomas Alfredson takes the challenge, the slow tempo and the complicated intrigue and lets this be John Le Carré. People say that this novel by his is the best espionage thriller ever and it is of course as far from James Bond as possible.
But it is Gary Oldman's film. His way of eating candy or correcting his glasses is art on its highest level, anyway being among a bunch of brilliant British actors. But you really have to stay awake. Otherwise you're soon lost in the most confusing plot you've ever seen.