From the director of Gods and Monsters and the pilot of The Big C, Condon is thus reunited with Ian McKellan and Laura Linney, adding a confident Milo Parker as the boy (in interview, the 11-year old sounds twice his age). Jeffrey Hatcher's screenplay is stately (source novel Mitch Cullin) delivering a slow, subtle, satisfying whole.
Well acted. With Hattie Morahan (I guess known to us from The Bletchley Cirle and one-offs like Lewis and Marple), Hiroyuki Sanada, Roger Allum, Phil Davis, Frances de la Tour.
Music: Carter Burwell. Cinematography: Tobias Schliessler (who also shot Condon's Dreamgirls about a black soul group in the 60s). Editor: Virginia Katz (Dreamgirls, Gods and Monsters). Production design: Martin Childs (Parade's End, Quills).
There were one or two on location shots in Japan, but it's mainly Chatham Docks. Baker Street is Bedford Row, and those great cliffs (also in Atonement) are near Seaford.
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