
BAFICI 2012: TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY BY TOMAS ALFREDSON
By John A. Riley
At one point in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Kathy Burke’s dejected, alcoholic ex-secret service researcher is enthusing about the good old days. Gary Oldman’s George Smiley reminds her that she’s talking about the era of World War Two, and she responds, dewy-eyed: “a real war… Englishmen could be proud then.”


