Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent
Updated June 26, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
Director/Writer: | Christopher Hampton |
Director of Photography: | Denis Lenoir |
Editor: | George Akers |
Production Designer: | Caroline Amies |
Music: | Philip Glass |
Producer: | Norma Heyman |
Fox Searchlight; R; 94 minutes | |
Release: | 11/96 |
Cast: | Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Gérard Depardieu, Robin Williams, Christian Bale and Eddie Izzard |
Based on the novel by Joseph Conrad |
For a film with anarchists, spies and terrorists as its central characters, The Secret Agent is oddly apolitical. Politics is secondary to the loveless marriage of Winnie (Arquette) and Verloc (Hoskins), a loathsome Brit who holds anarchist meetings in his porn shop and then reports the proceedings to the police. Williams, in an unbilled role, is the one character to portray a sinister baseness lacking in the other characters.
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