Actors: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth
Director: Tomas Alfredson
I might be being generous, but I have a love of espionage films, even if I am rarely able to follow them well. The best espionage films play with our own perception of filmic reality - a person tells a story, and as he or she does, we see his story being acted out. Now what if that person is lying - either changing details or inventing the story out of whole cloth? And what if the story being told by the director is also a fabrication - it's also a story within a story that we don't yet know about?
Double agents, moles, plants, misinformation, information intentionally leaked, a super-British cast, people looking at one another ominously - it's all great fun. The thing that's remarkable about films like this is that one misstep and they can fall into being an incoherent mess, but this one manages to give you a lot of the answers if you're willing to go along with it.
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