Foreign intrigue, a mysterious woman, shadows darker than the night — Stephen Soderbergh's adaptation of the acclaimed WWII-era novel by Joseph Kanon is a film-geek experiment in retro aesthetics, a black-and-white valentine to the briskly paced, no-nonsense films of Hollywood's studio era. Not only did director/cinematographer Soderbergh shoot Kanon's story of intrigue in war-shattered Berlin on studio sets and use the fixed focal-length lenses, old-fashioned process shots, punishing incandescent lights and the 1.66:1 aspect ratio of movies actually made in the 1940s, but he also pushed his cast to emulate the bold, externalized, crisply enunciated performances of g...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
108 mins