![]() ‘Just because you’re the PM doesn’t mean you can make up your own facts,’ someone points out, firmly. But as with his drone thriller ‘Eye in the Sky’, director Gavin Hood turns over a few rocks to reveal something familiar scurrying beneath. ![]() Inevitably, a few characters suffer with so many to accommodate and few sparks are drawn from Gun’s Kurdish husband (Adam Bakri), the person with most to lose from her stand. Knightley executes a nifty gear shift, steeling-up in a way that adds edge to Gun’s encounters with the police and even her own defenders (her scenes with Ralph Fiennes’s human rights lawyer are a highlight). It is, as a fellow hack memorably points out, ‘a neocon, giant fucking con’. Matt Smith’s sympathetic Observer reporter points out what’s at stake. In 2003, leading up to the invasion of Iraq. ![]() She decides to leak it, despite the risk of prison for breaching the Official Secrets Act. Keira Knightley stars in the untold true story about a spy who risked everything to stop an unjust war. She’s a GCHQ translator who stumbles on an NSA email demanding the blackmailing of UN members to get the invasion of Iraq rubber-stamped. screenplay: Sara Bernstein, Gregory Bernstein, Gavin Hood cast: Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Rhys Ifans, Adam Bakri, Ralph Fiennes, Indira Varma. ![]() It’s one part tense spy thriller to two parts multi-stranded journo procedural, and while it’ll do nothing to restore trust in the august bodies that rule the land, it’s a pacy, palm-clammying watch.Īn on-form Keira Knightley plays true-life whistleblower Katherine Gun. Parents need to know that Official Secrets is a drama based on the true story of whistleblower Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), who leaked information about. But where that movie had a lot of indignant voltage running through it, Official Secrets, directed by Gavin Hood from a script by Hood, Gregory Bernstein and Sarah Bernstein (based on a book by Marcia Mitchell and Thomas Mitchell) feels both dutiful and dry. Set at a time when a Western government telling porkies still counted as a major scandal, ‘Official Secrets’ definitely feels like a period movie, despite its early noughties setting. ![]()
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