The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Blu-ray/DVD
Released 17 MAY
You can smell the fuggy vapours emanating from, still one of the great screen adaptaions of a John Le Carré source novel. In the film’s strange opening chapter, we see the one-time head of operations in Berlin fall from grace, descending to a life of booze-soaked prowling, menial labour and fisticuffs with the local greengrocer. The film harnesses Burton’s personal demons (and not to mention his physical deterioration) in an immense performance whose air of bitter melancholy is enhanced further by the small skin blemish under his right eye that resembles and omnipresent tear.
