Gavin Hood’s fact-based drama tells the story of a British whistleblower who leaked information about a blackmail scheme aimed at forcing U.N. members to support the war in Iraq
By John Anderson Aug. 29, 2019 4:26 pm ET The principal secret in director Gavin Hood ’s fact-based drama “Official Secrets” was a directive sent from Washington to Britain in 2003 to investigate nonpermanent members of the United Nations Security Council. The objective: blackmailing those members into voting for the resolution that would give legal cover to the war in Iraq. But it also refers to the U.K.
More Film Reviews The offender, so to speak, is Katharine Gun, who as an agent/interpreter at London’s Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, leaked the memo in early 2003. It eventually made its way to the Observer in London, and Ms. Gun into a British courtroom; U.S. forces, of course, made their way to Baghdad, despite Ms. Gun’s efforts.
The screenplay, based on the book “The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion” by Marcia and Thomas Mitchell, is by Sara Bernstein, Gregory Bernstein and Mr. Hood. It attracted a rather high-caliber cast to a small-bore movie, presumably because of its storyline. Rhys Ifans and Matt Smith play Observer reporters Ed Vulliamy and Martin Bright ; Matthew Goode is their immediate editor, Peter Beaumont.
Ms. Knightley is the centerpiece, of course, though once Katharine leaks the memo the film segues into other aspects of the case, including the journalistic and the political.
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