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Siskoid

Florence Pugh in a John le Carré adaptation directed by Park Chan-wook?! The Little Drummer Girl sounds like an odd cocktail, but I love all the ingredients so... This six-part mini-series also has Michael Shannon as an Israeli spymaster using half-retired agent Alexander Skarsgård to recruit Pugh, a stage actress in for the role of her life in late '70s Europe. It's an undercover story, with our lead posing as a terrorist's girlfriend to infiltrate a Palestinian cell, her loyalties tested along the way. A slow burn that gets deep into how a cover story is constructed (a "fiction" as they call it) before sending Pugh on her way. Tension builds not just because of the terrorists and what they might do, but wondering how far her handlers are willing to go as well. While we can't exactly be on the side of terror, the Palestinian characters nevertheless tend to be sympathetic and emotionally, we're in the same boat as Pugh's character. Director Park throws out one of his trademark artistic shots here and there, but to stay in le Carré's world, he tames his craziest impulses, his best ideas usually coming through the editing. That's probably for the best, though part of me really wanted to see what he could do with the material by going full Chan-wook.

2 years 9 months ago

Earring72

Slow but intruiging espionage drama based on the novel by John Le Carre. Is in need of something "shocking" happening but still remains gripping and exciting

5 years 2 months ago