Spy(ies) France | 2009 | col | 99 mins | dir. Nicolas Saada, with Guillaume Canet, Géraldine Pailhas, Stephen Rea | cert. tbc | UK premiere Baggage handlers Gérard and Vincent supplement their income by stealing from passengers luggage. Rifling through the suitcase belonging to a Syrian diplomat, Gérard discovers a concealed explosive device and dies in an explosion. Vincent is then approached by the French security services, and cuts a deal: they will overlook his past thefts if he will help them and their British counterparts to find the men behind the bomb plot. The mission leads Vincent, under an assumed identity, to London, where he must infiltrate the circle of a corrupt English businessman and 'turn' his beautiful French wife Claire... An exciting, tightly-plotted thriller in the best American tradition.
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