Synopsis
A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.
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Cast
- Ralph FiennesJoe
- Donald SutherlandThorne
- Tom HollanderPrésident
- Lara Flynn BoyleLa Première Dame
- Marc WarrenPool
- Ron CookDoc
- Mackenzie CrookMonteur
- Mark DymondRoger Jolly Lyme
- Miranda RaisonDaisy
- Harry EdenShithead
Recommendations
- 58
Entertainment Weekly
There's nothing particularly revolutionary about writer-director Robert Edwards' grimly satiric political fable. - 40
Village Voice
It's an easy movie to loathe, but it's designed imaginatively and enjoys the committed attention of its cast. - 40
The New Republic
The dialogue creaks, all the more so since we know better than it does what it is going to say. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
About as subtle as its all too obvious title would suggest. - 38
Rolling Stone
Political satire is so rare that it's a shame to watch the reliable Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland lend their talents to one that is blind to its own incompetence. - 38
New York Daily News
Dark, grim, and cliched Orwellian satire. - 38
TV Guide Magazine
First-time writer-director Robert Edwards is nothing if not ambitious, attempting to encapsulate the history of totalitarian oppression and misguided revolutionary zeal into a broad, blunt, black comedy. - 38
New York Post
Though Fiennes has done (far) better work, the blurry story seems almost profound when seen through his eyes. To the extent the movie works at all, it works best when it's just the camera and Fiennes in a bleak white room.
