"The Constant Gardener" directed by Fernando Mireilles [review]
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Date
2005
Authors
Prescott, Nick
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Abstract
John Le Carre, perhaps the most celebrated author of espionage fiction of the late
Twentieth Century, has, in his more recent work, explored some of the genuinely
troubling world events that have begun to drive our planet since the end of the cold
war. The Constant Gardener, set in Kenya and London, caused something of a stir on
its release as a book; here was a tragic love story played out against a backdrop of
big-business corruption, Governmental apathy and the exploitation of the third world.
Large-scale and complex issues these most certainly are, and Le Carre brilliantly
examines them by focussing on the effects wrought upon a pair of lovers caught up in
the midst of cataclysmic events.
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Radio, ABC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Review, Film, Movie
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Prescott, Nick. 2005. Review of "The Constant Gardener" directed by Fernando Mireilles. 891 ABC Adelaide website.