Shadow Dancer
An informant has been at the center of many a political thriller up to the present TV series “Homeland.” The intense Closing Night film focuses on a young single mother (Andrea Riseborough) whose brothers are restless members of the IRA in 1990s Northern Ireland. Recruited by them, she is arrested when a bomb plot in a London subway goes awry. Clive Owen is in top form as a MI5 official who interrogates her, offering her a choice of spying for them or going to prison and leaving her son motherless. Meeting weekly along the Belfast coast, an intense relationship develops between the official and his prey. The genuinely poetic director James Marsh brings his visual skills from his Oscar-winning documentary “Man on Wire.”
(UK/Ireland, 101 minutes, 2012)
"Comes together with measured intelligence and artfully apportioned suspense'' Variety
Best Performance in a British Feature Andrea Riseborough
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Vogue Theatre |
Thursday, January 24, 2013 |
7:30PM |
