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 (4)
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The year is 2000 and Joan Stanley (Judi Dench) is living in contented retirement in suburbia at the turn of the millennium. Her tranquil life is suddenly disrupted when she's arrested by MI5 and accused of providing intelligence to Communist Russia. Cut to 1938 where Joan is a Cambridge physics student who falls for young communist Leo Galich (Tom Hughes) and through him, begins to see the world in a new light. Working at a top-secret nuclear research facility during WWII, Joan comes to the realisation that the world is on the brink of mutually assured destruction. Confronted with an impossible question - what price would you pay for peace? - Joan must choose between betraying her country and loved ones, or saving them. (Lionsgate Home 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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