#redjoan

[lonelyhoneydrop]

Dreams

I want to run away to Cambridge and live an instagrammable life with 1920′s couture and communism, and sneaking out top secret information for a somewhat communist boyfriend who turns out to be the husband of my best friend and run away with my employer to Australia only to come back the UK and be arrested as a Russian spy in my eighties. 

[a-bigjust]

Red Joan (2018) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆

[a-bigjust]

Red Joan (2018) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆

[shntr]

映画『ジョーンの秘密』（Red Joan）観る スパイ容疑で逮捕された80代の老女の数奇な実話をもとにしたジェニー・ルーニーのベストセラー小説を映画化。トレバー・ナン監督、主演ジュディ・デンチ、ソフィー・クックソン、トム・ヒューズ #ジョーンの秘密 #RedJoan #TOHOシネマズ #TOHOシネマズ日本橋 #TOHOシネマズデイ #映画 #eiga #movie #cinema (Tohoシネマズ日本橋) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD3WnYGgrYW/?igshid=ihtfx9msro91

[rebelcookiesoph]

Celebrity duties - Sophie Cookson at it for Red Joan at the TIFF. Lovely movie with Sophie carrying her role very well vis-a-vis Tom Hughes and Stephen Campbell Moore♥️

[pbrstreetgang73]

Now watching:- #RedJoan #254 https://www.instagram.com/p/BzLWWCxFys3/?igshid=1nj6oqioioxtk

[cinebites]

Red Joan (2018)

Dir. Trevor Nunn

Synopsis

Recruited in Cambridge before the Second World War, Joan Stanley provides the Russians with atomic secrets. Many years later, in her old age, she is unmasked. Supposedly based on the true story of Melita Norwood.

What’s To Like

The period feel is effective and the story unfolds with a degree of tension. The role cannot have challenged Judi Dench, playing as she does in one of her typical modes of acting; yet she does it with such skill and aplomb that we can only admire.

Quibbles

The young Joan, ably played by Sophie Cookson, is written as a cipher who fails to provide the audience with psychological engagement. I would have preferred the ‘old Joan’ scenes to bookend the earlier time-period and allow that drama to open out without the constant intercutting.

Rating: **

Recommendation

Espionage dramas set in this period have proliferated of late(Traitors, Summer of Rockets) and this one offers nothing original in concept or construction.

[sjhoo]

It's about time for a MoviePass night. Bring on The Dame! #redjoan #tuesdaynightshenanigans #phoenixville (at The Colonial Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxLfwu9FUXf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dikjow0hzox2