Red Joan

Red Joan

13/4/2019 1h 41m 6.6/10

Overview

London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.

Director

Cordelia Hardy

Top Billed Cast

Judi Dench

Judi Dench

Joan Elizabeth Stanley

Stephen Campbell Moore

Stephen Campbell Moore

Max

Tom Hughes

Tom Hughes

Leo Galich

Tereza Srbova

Tereza Srbova

Sonya Galich

Sophie Cookson

Sophie Cookson

Young Joan Elizabeth Stanley

Ben Miles

Ben Miles

Nick

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

5/29/2024

6/10

It may well be inspired by real events but that doesn't stop it flowing like glue most of the time. Dame Judi Dench leads a workmanlike cast with Sophie Cookson playing her younger self; Tom Hughes and Stephen Campbell Moore in the story of a suburban housewife with a treacherous secret past. Sir Trevor Nunn doesn't manage to inject any sort of pace into this and as such it just ends up being another star vehicle for the star who features sparingly. Watchable, if only because it does give you some indications as to how people who felt they were doing the "right thing" in the sixties were easy pickings for the KGB recruiters; but otherwise this film is a little empty.

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