Me gustó mucho la estructura de cine-documental que utilizó Fernando para describir los esfuerzos que realiza [Tessa Quayle] en su admirable cruzada justiciera", señaló el escritor. "Mientras escribía la novela fui sintiendo una simpatía cada vez mayor hacia ella. Eso ocurrió porque a través de un personaje como Tessa pude expresar gran parte del idealismo que sigo conservando vivo dentro de mí". "En ningún momento tuve la esperanza de que iba a encontrarme con una copia fiel de lo que yo había escrito. El cine y la literatura son dos lenguajes completamente distintos. Pienso que gracias a los talentos de Meirelles y del guionista Jeffrey Caine, mi novela adquirió una nueva vida", comentó Le Carré. "Me gustó mucho la película, por la película misma y no porque tuvo su origen en un...
LONDON - The spying game is not what it used to be. That is a matter of regret for John le Carre, eminent novelist and former spy, who has done more than almost any other writer to forge our idea of how the game is played. Ian Fleming's action-hero James Bond might be more famous, but le Carre's universe has the ring of truth. His secret agents exist in a world of stalemate, moral compromise, ambiguity and betrayal. That's again the terrain of his 21st novel, "A Most Wanted Man," but in some ways the landscape has changed. The end of the Cold War changed things. The Sept. 11 attacks changed them again, revealing a frightening new menace and adding a glossary of chilling new terms - "war on terror," "extraordinary rendition" - to our common language.
British espionage writer John Le Carre said he was tempted to defect to the Soviet Union when he worked for British intelligence agency MI6, according to an interview published Sunday. In an interview with The Sunday Times, the 76-year-old novelist was quoted as saying he was curious about what was on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
The end of the Cold War set the career of master spy novelist John le Carre on an unusually bumpy course. Far from the days of resounding and virtually unadulterated praise for his early novels "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" and the trilogy "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," "The Honourable Schoolboy" and "Smiley's People," Mr. le Carre took up causes in his later books that drew charges that the author was anti-Semitic and anti-American. In "Absolute Friends," the novel that preceded the one currently under review, the author's opposition to the Iraq war and long, polemical passages averring such ultimately burdened what came close to being a very good story. In it, readers had to traverse land mines of political grandstanding by the author to the detriment of a tale about a mixed-race ...
Though I'm sure [Fernando Meirelles]'s moral indignation is genuine (I don't always think the same of Le Carré), he is first of all an artist and his film is more poetic than polemical, more human than accusatory. The slowest parts are the "thriller" aspects. We've seen these political double-crosses before and even adult movies have car chases these days, but the love story is worth the price of admission, though possibly not the 129-minute length. Nonetheless, the next time we see them they are in Africa and married. She immediately causes trouble at a diplomatic reception and [Justin Quayle] is warned to "rein in" his wife. Seems Tessa and an African medical friend have discovered that the (fictional) pharmaceutical company donating AIDS meds to the natives is also covertly testin...
Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz perform with enough intent to effectively blot out everything but their reality. As Justin Quayle, British diplomat to Kenya, the introverted Fiennes excels at being terminally pleasant--the kind of servant to the Empire who?ll apologize when you bump into him. In one of the film?s first scenes, when he?s told his wife may have been murdered, he stares into middle distance until his features reform into an automatic smile:"Good of you to tell me...it can?t have been easy." We?d dismiss him as a hopeless Milquetoast if it weren?t for the facial expression we see next, when the coroner asks him to identify the barely recognizable body of his wife, Tessa (Weisz). [Fernando Meirelles] cuts nervily from Quayle?s memory of their first lovemaking in London, overe...
I've spent much of my reading life trying to figure it out: What is it about the work of John le Carre that draws me back to his books again and again? Le Carre (real name, David Cornwell), a former British spy turned best-selling novelist, is a master plotter -- but so is Arthur Conan Doyle. He's a marvelous creator of dialogue -- but so is Elmore Leonard. He is darkly hilarious in that dry, British manner -- but so are any number of contemporary English novelists.
George Smiley, the central character in the big-screen adaptation of John le Carre's Cold War thriller "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," doesn't say much, and that suits Gary Oldman just fine. If you can do it in two lines and a look, I'm happy," says the British-born actor who roared onto the screen in 1986 with his first big role, as punk rocker Sid Vicious in "Sid and Nancy.
It's hard to imagine a film with more to live up to than "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy." The brilliant John le Carre novel was superbly adapted to the small screen in 1979 in a BBC version that starred Alec Guinness as George Smiley, intelligence mandarin, cold warrior, scholar, cuckold and, famously, "the very archetype of a flabby Western liberal. The story is essentially the same. A covert operation set into motion by Control, the head of MI6, goes awry, and a British agent is shot and possibly killed. Control (played by John Hurt), who was past his prime and clinging to his office, was pursuing the theory that there was a double agent - a mole - leaking secret intelligence and sabotaging operations. Control and his deputy George Smiley (Gary Oldman) are forced out, and a cabal of y...
OLAF FUB SEZ: According to British spy novelist John Le Carre, born on this date in 1931, "Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. ***
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