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Adapted for the screen by spy novelist John le Carre, Andrew Davies and director John Boorman, from le Carre’s same-titled 1996 novel (a clever updating of Graham Greene’s Our Man In Havana), The Tailor Of Panama opens nationally. Pierce Brosnan stars as a louche, self-serving MI6 spy who is shunted off to the government’s far-flung Panama bureau where he proceeds to enrich himself by feeding his London superiors specious Panamanian government secrets sourced from a locquacious, debt-ridden ex-pat tailor (the excellent Geoffrey Rush). An inventive, finely crafted espionage thriller satirizing the so-called intelligence community’s predilection for covert, immoral skullduggery and farcical foreign flim-flaming. Co-starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendon Gleeson and THE Harold Pinter.
