2016 · thriller
Our Kind of Traitor
Directed by Susanna White1h 48m2016
A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday in Morocco. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's intelligence establishment, to Paris and the Alps.
Our read: Our Kind of Traitor (2016) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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