While le Carre's narrative returns an unequivocal guilty verdict on the drug companies, the jury on Meirelles's storytelling abilities remains hung.
The Constant Gardener (2005)
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Genre: Thriller
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, Bill Nighy, Daniele Harford
Screenwriter: Jeffrey Caine
Producer: Simon Channing Williams
Composer: Alberto Iglesias
DVD Info
Release:
Oct 1, 2006
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Dual Side - Single Layer
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 English
- Dolby Digita 5.1 French
- Subtitles - English (SDH)
- Subtitles - French
- Subtitles - Spanish
Additional Release Material:
- Deleted Scenes
- Extended Scene - Haruma - Play In Kibera
- Featurette - 1. EMBRACING AFRICA: FILMING IN KENYA
- 2. JOHN LE CARRE: FROM PAGE TO THE SCREEN
- 3. ANATOMY OF A GLOBAL THRILLER: BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE CONSTANT GARDENER
Reviews
There is a terrific pulse of energy in this film, a voltage which drives it over two hours.
It's a sign of the competence of everyone involved that The Constant Gardener never feels hectoring or self-righteous.
Weisz delivers what is perhaps her best screen performance to date; her relationship with Fiennes is complex and genuinely affecting.
This haunting film will linger with you as a portrait of love lost and found.
One of the most gripping and powerfully moving thrillers in memory; absolutely everything about this film works.
Fernando Meirelles, codirector of City of God, stresses old-fashioned storytelling and takes full advantage of his cast, including Danny Huston.
Fiennes has always been good, but in author John le Carré's 2000 postimperial African thriller, he may have found his signature role.
What it adds up to is a good yarn that uses real political concerns to make itself look beefier than the average Hollywood thriller.
a deeply intelligent and profoundly moral examination of a world where the political and the personal cannot ever be kept apart.
Elaborate, cynical, ambitious, eager, visually arresting, the film wants it all and gives plenty.
The pornography of Third World damage and suffering for the popcorn munching voyeuristic entertainment of more economically cozy moviegoers.
The Constant Gardener" has strengths that aren't apparent until the final credits start rolling.
Fiennes does a brilliant job of communicating his character's inner turmoil through subtle facial expressions and inflections of his voice.
Admirably composed, even if it ultimately feels a bit of a shame that it all has to come down to good guys and bad guys.
A ratos lenta y demasiado contemplativa, pero no en perjuicio significativo del resultado cinematográfico final.
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