I know we are still a fair way off next/this year’s award season (I have never really understood how they titled it!) but I have just seen the latest trailer for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), which is slatted for a October 27, 2011 release date. And does it look incredible or what! With its bleak exteriors, flawless costume and set design and a star studded cast to boot, including last year’s Best Actor Winner Colin Firth, rising star Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman, this feels like a definite Awards Season Contender.
I’m excited for this film for a number of reasons but mainly because of the films leading actor. Gary Oldman is an old [pun intended] favourite of mine. While most audiences would only remember him from his role as Commissioner Gordon in Christopher Nolan‘s Dark Knight series or Serius Black in the Harry Potter franchise, he is an actor with a career that extends across 3 decades with iconic performances in such films as the Fifth Element(1997) and The Contender (2000). For years Oldman has been overlooked by the Academy and I feel that this film may be the one that they cannot ignore, even if its just a long over due nomination.
You can find the very minimal synopsis, courtesy of IMDB, below:
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley [Gary Oldman] is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6’s echelons.
Or if the trailer has left you hungry for more, you can seek out the films stimulus, John le Carré‘s acclaimed novel of the same name, or the 1979 BBC miniseries which starred Sir Alec Guinness in the role of George Smiley. I plan to find the book as soon as I can!
The Film Dissection 