![]() I’ve been waiting for years to write about this movie. The molasses slow pacing, the absolute resistance to making anything explicit, the ever-shifting, trumpet-laced landscape of allegiances, identities, and betrayals, none of them explained-these are the stuff of movie magic. I’ve pushed it on enough people in my life to know that the most common reaction for a viewer who’s not intimately familiar with the source material is, more or less, “wait, what just happened?” That’s part of the movie’s brilliance, trust me. If I’m being entirely honest, I’ll admit the movie is all but inscrutable on first viewing. ![]() A bold claim, I know, especially since relatively few people seem to have seen the movie, it’s generally overshadowed in cultural lore by the 1979 BBC miniseries with Alec Guinness as Smiley, and a quick scan of the filmography of the topmost people involved in production suggests that this movie may in fact have ruined a few careers. ![]() ![]() Let me just begin this appreciation by stating fervently and for the record that I consider Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011), the film adaptation of John le Carré’s 1974 novel starring Gary Oldman as George Smiley, to be the greatest spy movie ever made. ![]()
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