The Constant Gardener

Name: The Constant Gardener
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Romance
Released: August 31, 2005
Duration: 129 min
Rating: 82
Cast: Danny Huston, Rachel Weisz, Ralph Fiennes

2005

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Focus Features | Release Date: August 31, 2005 | R

Starring: Danny Huston, Rachel Weisz, Ralph Fiennes

Summary: Adapted from the novel by John le Carre, this is a gripping romantic thriller that sweeps audiences along one man's emotional and global journey to uncover the truth behind a personal loss and a worldwide conspiracy. (Focus Features)

Director: Fernando Meirelles

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 129 min

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Roger Ebert

Like "City of God," it feels organically rooted. Like many Le Carre stories, it begins with grief and proceeds with sadness toward horror. Its closing scenes are as cynical about international politics and commerce as I can imagine. I would like to believe they are an exaggeration, but I fear they are not. This is one of the year's best films. Read full review

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Mick LaSalle

It's a love story only in passing. And yet the love story is what lingers in the mind and gives energy and meaning to everything that happens on-screen. Read full review

Peter Rainer

Essentially two movies for the price of one. But those halves add up to more than most movies right now. Read full review

Stephen Hunter

Isn't quite a great espionage movie or a great Africa movie, but in a summer of heat and wind, it's the next best thing. Read full review

Ella Taylor

A smart, beautiful piece of storytelling, attentive to Le Carré's broad intent, while boldly taking a knife to his more egregious longueurs. Read full review

Premiere Glenn Kenny

With almost palpable anger, Meirelles hammers home the point that crushing poverty is only one problem for Africa that the West needs to do something about. Read full review

Jim Fusilli

In the end, The Constant Gardener is hardly more than yet another study of white, upper-middle-class martyrdom rather than the hard look at third-world suffering it might've been.

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Peter

Sep 2, 2005

Wonderful movie, rachel was fantastic so as ralph.