A blonde with a secret smile and light brown skinnresväska knocking on the door of a beautiful townhouse. A jewish man opens the door, he is the father of the boy playing the kids upstairs. The girl is beautiful, the curls flying, he buys her story about the discs shall be submitted to the house an au pair.
Boom.
the Church, one of several in the late seventies Germany, it turns out, triggering a flurry of activity in the israeli secret service.
The new high-profile John le Carré-the series ”The little drummer girl” depicts how Mossadveteranen Kurtz (Michael Shannon) leads a complicated operation in Europe to stop the palestinian terrorcell is behind the attacks – and that made a young Swedish-to-death minions.
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by that, in turn, recruit a british, radical actress called Charlie (Florence Pugh). She has a bumpy career in a free theater group but a självsvåldig charisma beyond the ordinary. Kurtz’s use of its hunkiga, mysterious, romantic colleague Becker (Alexander Skarsgård) to ensnare Charlie on a beach in Greece. She lets herself fall, and surprises himself by agreeing to infiltrate the palestinians.
John le Carrés novel, ”The little trumslagarflickan”, was filmed as a garish action thriller without much subtext is already the year after the release, in 1984. Diane Keaton and Klaus Kinski appeared in the supporting roles.
this Year’s tv serieversion is in many ways the old film’s contrast. A low intensity lingering drama with existential overtones, rather than political. A reasonable interpretation, among other things, that the time so mercilessly ran past John le Carrés spionvärld. Just the political implications when it comes to the Middle east is hardly the interesting thing in ”The little drummer girl”, other than that a historic soundboard. But there is much else to entertain themselves with.
While the C’s last John le Carré-the film adaptation of ‘The night manager’ with Tom Hiddleston in the lead role was sunny sexy and seductive is ”The little drummer girl” darker, gåtfullare, more desperate.
good acting. Alexander Skarsgård has never been better, he fills out every single contour of its initially silent, inaccessible, and magnetic character.
Florence Pugh, who wore up the ”Lady M” and who appeared in the series ”Marcella”, is fantastically skilled at depicting all of the reflections in the role of Charlie, an actress who plays a role which plays a role… The mustascherade Michael Shannon is so much better than in ”The shape of water”, he plays the krishanteraren Kurtz with an addictive blend of faderlighet and explosive brutality.
The Korean ”Oldboy”director Park Chan-wook has really been putting his personal stamp on the series, which feels like a stroke of genius. It frossas in a stylized vintageelegant seventy with genomkomponerade monochrome images. The whole narrative is characterized by the secrets, lies and double-dealing that the characters expose each other. The precise, well-written the dialogue is, in turn, filled with meaningful pauseringar.
Prettier spiondrama is hard to imagine.
