Get Them to the Greek: Madden Traipses Lightly Through Factual WWII Espionage
Despite it’s presentation as a frothy pseudo-comedy, the events transpiring in John Madden’s Operation Mincemeat actually happened, albeit under more strenuous circumstances than the cheery disposition the film leans into. Based on the book by Ben Macintyre, which was already the basis for a 2010 television documentary, the comedically inclined Michelle Ashford (Masters of Sex) spins this into the kind of lighthearted territory of 1940s studio efforts grappling with post WWII realities.
Somewhere between Lubitsch’s original To Be or Not to Be (1942) and maybe Alexander Mackendrick’s original Whisky Galore!…...
Despite it’s presentation as a frothy pseudo-comedy, the events transpiring in John Madden’s Operation Mincemeat actually happened, albeit under more strenuous circumstances than the cheery disposition the film leans into. Based on the book by Ben Macintyre, which was already the basis for a 2010 television documentary, the comedically inclined Michelle Ashford (Masters of Sex) spins this into the kind of lighthearted territory of 1940s studio efforts grappling with post WWII realities.
Somewhere between Lubitsch’s original To Be or Not to Be (1942) and maybe Alexander Mackendrick’s original Whisky Galore!…...
- 5/13/2022
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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