Limited release 7/25/2014
El Con with Sheila First Day of School 8/7/2014
RT Critic: 90 Audience: 71
cag: 5.5 - Hard to say you "love" such a sad story, but it was amazingly done
Directed by Anton Corbijn
Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions
based on a book by John leCarre
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Willem Defoe, Robin Wright, Grigory Dobrygin
My thoughts: As I was watching the amazing Philip Seymour Hoffman, I kept remembering that this was his last film. He was brilliant; nonstop smoking, drinking, thinking...caring. It was the kind of story that unfolds, makes you attend carefully so that you can figure out what's going on. You begin to see into each of the characters; their motivations, their stories. It was amazingly done. I don't know much about directing and exactly what it is that a director does to make this sort of characterization jump out at you, but this amateur movie-watcher is guessing that Mr. Corbijn did a terrific job.
RT Summary: When a half-Chechen, half-Russian, brutally tortured immigrant turns up in Hamburg's Islamic community, laying claim to his father's ill-gotten fortune, both German and US security agencies take a close interest: as the clock ticks down and the stakes rise, the race is on to establish this most wanted man's true identity - oppressed victim or destruction-bent extremist?
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