![]() ![]() Acteurs als Fiennes, Goode, Smith, Hill en Ifans kun je wel om een boodschap sturen, en allemaal zijn ze fantastisch op dreef. Some great BBC costume drama adaptations are on the way out - catch them while you can Less. ![]() Maar ook de onzekerheid en radeloosheid zijn duidelijk zichtbaar, en vooral wanneer haar man de dupe dreigt te worden zie je Gunn op haar kwetsbaarst. Period dramas coming to - and leaving - Netflix in March 2017. Katharine Gunn is de klokkenluider, en Knightley speelt haar op rustige en krachtige wijze. Information page about the biographical crime movie Official Secrets (starring Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode and more) on American Netflix. Het is nu algemeen bekend op wat voor manier Engeland en veel andere landen door de Bush-regering de oorlog in Irak in zijn gerommeld, maar het is nog steeds schrijnend en triest om te zien op wat voor manier dit is gebeurd.Ĭorruptie, politieke druk, leugens, vervalsing, paaien etc. In 2003, British intelligence specialist Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley) received a memo with a shocking directive: collect blackmail worthy information on. Official Secrets is een vakkundig gemaakte politieke thriller waar de kwaliteit vanaf straalt. Een klokkenluider, politieke intrige, journalisten die hun werk doen, de rechtszaak etc. Official Secrets has a familiar structure and an obvious if worthy message, but rises on the strength of Keira Knightleys powerful performance. Just because you're the Prime Minister, it doesn't mean you get to make up your own facts.” This puts her in violation of the Official Secrets Act, a treasonable offense that has dire consequences.“What we know, is that Saddam has this material.” Fired up with indignation over the deception as well as her own antiwar sentiments, heightened by humanist concern for 30 million Iraqis, Gun leaks the memo. intelligence requesting that the Brits lean on (translation: blackmail) five UN Security Council swing-vote members - Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria, and Guinea - to vote for invasion. 2003 : les États-Unis et l’Angleterre souhaitent intervenir en Irak. Back at GCHQ, Gun is copied on a top-secret memo from U.S. Knightley displays no new tricks in Official Secrets, delivering an idealistic heroine who is cool under pressure and passionate in her beliefs. Critique et bande-annonce du film OFFICIAL SECRETS réalisé par Gavin Hood, avec Keira Knightley et Matt Smith. “Just because you’re the prime minister doesn’t mean you get to make up your own facts,” she sneers, as visions of The Donald dance in the heads of contemporary cynics of institutional mendacity.īut Gun goes further than mumbling curses at the TV screen while her Muslim husband Yasar (Adam Bakri), a Kurdish-Turk, gripes about preferring to watch football. Bush war agenda that claims Saddam Hussein is hiding weapons of mass destruction. Gun, an intelligence operative at GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters), a British surveillance agency tasked with ferreting out terrorist activity, sits at home in Cheltenham, talking back to Prime Minister Tony Blair on the telly as he pushes the George W. ![]() But even when director Gavin Hood’s political thriller fails to thrill, there’s no doubting the continuing relevance of the topic on the table. Official Secrets shows that spy dramas from real life are very often not action thrillers such as Bond or Bourne or Homeland or indeed Hood’s last movie, Eye in the Sky, from 2015 but. Security Council into supporting the 2003 U.S. Instead, it dumps a ton of data on audiences in telling the true story of Katharine Gun ( Keira Knightley), the British whistleblower who leaked classified documents meant to pressure the U.N. Directed by Gavin Hood Writing Credits Cast (in credits order) complete, awaiting verification Produced by Music by Paul Hepker Mark Kilian Cinematography by Florian Hoffmeister Editing by Megan Gill Casting By Kate Dowd Production Design by Simon Rogers Art Direction by Set Decoration by David Morison Costume Design by Claire Finlay-Thompson.
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