Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles' follow-up to his startling CITY OF GOD (2003) is a sophisticated, deadly serious thriller that sticks close to John le Carré's sobering novel of diplomatic intrigue and corporate shenanigans in Africa. Over the course of his not terribly distinguished career, elegant Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes), a midlevel diplomat in the British High Commission, has done nothing extraordinary to raise his profile. More important, he's done nothing to ruffle the feathers of the powers that be, particularly those of immediate superior Sandy Woodrow (Danny Huston) or the high commissioner himself, Sir Bernard Pellegrin (Bill Nighy). Quayle's fie...
Released:
2005
Rated:
R
Length:
129 mins