An Officer and a Spy

3.00
    An Officer and a Spy
    2019

    Synopsis

    In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil's Island penal colony.

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    Cast

    • Jean DujardinPicquart
    • Louis GarrelAlfred Dreyfus
    • Emmanuelle SeignerPauline Monnier
    • Grégory GadeboisHenry
    • Hervé PierreGeneral Gonse
    • Wladimir YordanoffGeneral Mercier
    • Didier SandreGeneral Boisdeffre
    • Melvil PoupaudMaître Labori
    • Eric RufSandherr
    • Mathieu AmalricBertillon

    Recommendations

    • 80

      The Guardian

      It’s a solid, well-crafted piece of professional carpentry, like a heavy piece of Victorian furniture; built to last; built to be used. The longer you look at it, the more impressive it grows.
    • 70

      Screen Daily

      Jean Dujardin is quietly excellent as the French officer whose growing conviction that Alfred Dreyfus (Louis Garrel) is innocent of treason puts him on a collision course with his superiors. The Oscar-winning actor provides the film with its soulful centre, despite the familiarity of the material and its procedural tone.
    • 60

      The Hollywood Reporter

      One couldn’t wish for a more painstakingly researched or beautifully rendered account of the infamous Dreyfus affair than Roman Polanski’s An Officer and a Spy (J’Accuse).... Yet the result is oddly lacking in heart and soul, almost as though a mask of military discipline held it in check.
    • 60

      CineVue

      The film itself is utterly uncontroversial, solid, occasionally stolid, and perfectly fine.
    • 60

      The Telegraph

      This is a sober, stiff-collared procedural, handsomely shot but also oddly bloodless until the more conventional paranoid-thriller rhythms of its final act kick in.
    • 55

      TheWrap

      Any controversy that might erupt over Roman Polanski’s decision to implicitly equate himself with one of history’s greatest victims of injustice is dissipated by the resultant film’s tepid listlessness.
    • 50

      Variety

      An Officer and a Spy has a this-happened-and-then-this-happened quality. And that’s why the movie, beneath the two-dimensional jauntiness of its acting and the period vividness of its sets and costumes, feels more dutiful than riveting.
    • 50

      The Playlist

      It’s a middling historical drama, finely crafted and ever so slightly stodgy in spite of a compelling last act.

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