Red Joan
Directed by:
Trevor NunnScreenplay:
Lindsay ShaperoCinematography:
Zac NicholsonComposer:
George FentonCast:
Judi Dench, Stephen Campbell Moore, Sophie Cookson, Tom Hughes, Ben Miles, Nina Sosanya, Tereza Srbová, Laurence Spellman, Freddie Gaminara, Adrian Wheeler (more)VOD (2)
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Joan Stanley (Judi Dench) is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge: providing classified scientific information - including details on the building of the atomic bomb - to the Soviet government for decades. As she is interrogated, Joan relives the dramatic events that shaped her life and beliefs; her student days at Cambridge, where she excelled at physics while challenging deep-seated sexism; her tumultuous love affair with a dashing political radical (Tom Hughes); and the devastation of WWII, which inspired her to risk everything in pursuit of peace. (Via Vision Entertainment)
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Despite its interesting subject and high-quality work with the setting and characters, Red Joan was somehow not developed into something bigger, which it deserved.
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