Red Joan (2018)
- Directed by
- Trevor Nunn
- Genre
- drama film, spy film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Rated
- M
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 396 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An elderly woman is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union decades earlier. The film flashes back to her younger self as a secretary who passed nuclear secrets to the Soviets.
tensereflectivebiographicalslow-burnsomberrestrainedcharacter-drivennostalgic
What happens
Red Joan is a 2018 British spy drama film, directed by Trevor Nunn, from a screenplay by Lindsay Shapero. The film stars Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes, Ben Miles, Nina Sosanya, Tereza Srbova, and Judi Dench. The film is based on a novel of the same name written by Jennie Rooney, which was itself inspired by the life of Melita Norwood. Norwood worked at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association as a secretary and supplied the Soviet Union with nuclear secrets. The information that Norwood betrayed to the Soviets hastened the pace at which they developed nuclear bomb technology. Red Joan had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2018 and was released on 19 April 2019, by Lionsgate in the United Kingdom. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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