In response to
"one of my tenets of film criticism is British spies pf the sixties came in two different categories: either gritty/LeCarre or cool/Fleming -- nm"
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crash davis
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Would the film A Deadly Affair (Sidney Lumet) be an exception?
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I kind of agree with you, but I think a couple films based on Le Carre's novels aren't "gritty" so much as "cinema verite'". Or is that a distinction without a difference?
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