The life of a young courageous diplomat Justin Quyal, who after a short time of marriage, has taken his wife in a secret mission in Kenya, where she has been killed brutally, has been changed completely, as he begins to investigate in the matter, by following each small detail, and he gets shocked by finding out horrible information about that organization.
Fiennes carries Le Carré's spirit with a slow-burning performance that operates on two fronts: As a powerful indictment of third-world abuses by pharmaceutical companies, and as a widower's moving investigation into his shattered relationship.
Film Journal International
March 01, 2007
Elaborate, cynical, ambitious, eager, visually arresting, the film wants it all and gives plenty.
Meirelles clearly trusts his actors, particularly Fiennes and Weisz: The plot of The Constant Gardener is fairly intricate, but in the end, the story is told mostly in their faces.
