Every government has one.
In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jul 20266/10
I think that with the possible expection of "Kes" (1969), I was always put off Ken Loach's films because of his so overtly self-indulging political agenda. This one also allows him to have a go at the British establishment too, as it bathes in the fertile waters of Irish political discord and by the end of it I wasn't quite sure if anyone's agenda was very well hidden. It all centres around the killing of an American lawyer. An high-level investigation is ordered and so Scotsman "Kerrigan" (Brian Cox) is sent from London to look into the circumstances of the murder - to the obvious chagrin of the RUC's "Brodie" (Jim Norton). Pretty swiftly, he starts to smell a rat and together with the dead man's girlfriend "Ingrid" (an underused Frances McDormand) begins what soon becomes quite a perilous search for the truth - and a mysterious audio tape that might reveal why he had to die and just who ordered it? Was it just another routine terrorist slaughter or might there be much more to it? To be honest, I found the investigative elements of this clearly contrived to support a particular perspective, and so what jeopardy there was rather dissipated, but what is much better portrayed here -
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Cast
- Frances McDormandIngrid Jessner
- Brian CoxPeter Kerrigan
- Brad DourifPaul Sullivan
- Mai ZetterlingMoa
- Bernard ArchardSir Robert Neil
- Michelle FairleyTeresa Doyle
- Maurice RoëvesHarris
- Jim NortonBrodie
- John BenfieldMaxwell
- Bernard BlochHenri
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- Ken LoachDirector
- Jim AllenWriter
- Clive TicknerDirector of Photography
- Stewart CopelandOriginal Music Composer
- Jonathan MorrisEditor
- Eric FellnerProducer
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