sucker for gay love stories

Rating: 9/10 (2 January 2012)

Well, so it ends badly. But in all seriousness, Le Carre (who has a small role in the film so he's still alive) once described his book as an exercise in betrayal, which would not make Smiley the main character. The Haydon-Prideaux relationship in the book and TV movie were described as going back to school days - I don't think the movie indicates as much. It does have that glance at the party, just before Haydon seduces Ann Smiley, and the illusion to their night together before Prideaux goes off to Hungary. Interesting that a film would make a character gay that wasn't in the book (Guillam) when in US moves it is always the other way around.