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The life of a couple of secret agents is hell. The tandem is bound to be hungry, or one of the two takes the opportunity to deceive its partner under the guise of confidential mission. And harmony shatters. Except for George (Michael Fassbender) and his wife, Kathryn (Cate Blanchett), British spies cooing in their dream house: these two offer a perfect image, which does not fail to intrigue their office colleagues, perched in the glass heights of a London building.
In The Insider (Or Black bagnamed after these flight operations of sensitive documents in black bags), Steven Soderbergh and his screenwriter David Koepp – author of Jurassic Park (1993), from Steven Spielberg, from Mission: Impossible (1996), from Brian de Palma, etc. -scrutinize the couple’s mysteries well, beyond the espionage affair.
It is the twisted blows of conjugality that interests the American filmmaker, as evidenced by the thriller’s mode, his first feature film Sex, lies and videowhich earned the director then aged 26 to win the Palme d’Or in Cannes, in 1989. It will be noted that George, in The Insideris a maniac of the truth, as well as the character of Graham (James Spader) in the palmate work – the one who films the sexual confidences of women in video.
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