an aperitif for the TV series

Rating: 6/10 (13 February 2012)

An interesting take on it, but for me the definitive version is the TV series. Gary Oldman is quite good, but Alec Guinness is simply superlative.
The new version is necessarily like an MP3.. highly compressed so that you lose the original flavor yet adding elements which are conspicuously absent and inconsistent with the book. The greenish wash of the post-processing is particularly distracting to me, and it is ironic that the final scene has such an obvious (and to me strange) French theme since the film was a combination of French (and, I suspect, Hungarian) funds with a Swedish director.