Our Kind of Traitor
Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris lead this adaptation of John Le Carré's bestselling espionage thriller about a couple on holiday who become entwined with a money launderer (Stellan Skarsgård) for the Russan mafia.
When Dima (Skarsgård) asks for their help to deliver classified information to the British Secret Services, Perry (McGregor) and Gail (Harris) get caught in a dangerous world of international espionage and dirty politics. The couple is propelled on a perilous journey through Paris and Bern, a safe house in the French Alps, to the murky corners of London, and to an alliance with the British Government via a ruthless and determined MI6 agent (Damian Lewis).
- Director:
- Susanna White ('Nanny McPhee Returns')
- Writer:
- Hossein Amini
- Cast:
- Ewan McGregorNaomie HarrisStellan SkarsgårdDamian LewisJeremy NorthamKhalid AbdallaSaskia ReevesMark GatissAlicia von Rittberg
Reviews & comments
Variety
pressWhite plays the moment of rupture with a banality that threatens to undermine our faith in her as storyteller more than in the system itself.
Time Out
pressA brisk, energetic drama, with Anthony Dod Mantle’s photography adding interesting layers to a fairly straightforward plot.
The Washington Post
pressThere’s little of the poetry that Perry teaches in the script, but the story’s mechanics are solid.
The Telegraph
pressIt’s a film whose final shape feels dwindled by compromise – not unappealing, but stymied, like a luxury jet which spends two hours taxiing on the runway.
The Guardian
pressDirector Susanna White favours a generic spy-movie look... Yet she works smartly with her actors...
Stuff
press[Does] a good job of keeping the tension ratcheted high (especially during one particular tennis match) in one of Le Carre's far more exotic tales...
Rolling Stone
pressNo knock on McGregor and Harris — fine actors both — but they never hold us rapt the way the plot demands.
Hollywood Reporter
pressAlthough engaging enough to hold interest, the just slightly off casting of Ewan McGregor and Stellan Skarsgard...dampens plausibility.
Empire Magazine
pressA lesser entry in the LeCarré Cinematic Universe, though Damian Lewis and Stellan Skarsgård rescue it from complete blandness.
Variety
pressWhite plays the moment of rupture with a banality that threatens to undermine our faith in her as storyteller more than in the system itself.
Time Out
pressA brisk, energetic drama, with Anthony Dod Mantle’s photography adding interesting layers to a fairly straightforward plot.
The Washington Post
pressThere’s little of the poetry that Perry teaches in the script, but the story’s mechanics are solid.
The Telegraph
pressIt’s a film whose final shape feels dwindled by compromise – not unappealing, but stymied, like a luxury jet which spends two hours taxiing on the runway.
The Guardian
pressDirector Susanna White favours a generic spy-movie look... Yet she works smartly with her actors...
Stuff
press[Does] a good job of keeping the tension ratcheted high (especially during one particular tennis match) in one of Le Carre's far more exotic tales...
Rolling Stone
pressNo knock on McGregor and Harris — fine actors both — but they never hold us rapt the way the plot demands.
Hollywood Reporter
pressAlthough engaging enough to hold interest, the just slightly off casting of Ewan McGregor and Stellan Skarsgard...dampens plausibility.
Empire Magazine
pressA lesser entry in the LeCarré Cinematic Universe, though Damian Lewis and Stellan Skarsgård rescue it from complete blandness.
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