Review 744: Black Bag
When his wife, intelligence agent Kathryn St. Jean (Cate Blanchett), is suspected of committing treason, her husband, intelligence agent George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) is assigned to investigate her. He faces the ultimate test - faithfulness to his marriage or loyalty to his country. Opening with a beautiful tracking shot following Michael Fassbender's George from behind as he enters an England bar to meet his contact Meachum (Gustaf Skarsgard), Black Bag The film features tones of gorgeous lighting to frame and give so much texture to the locations. Warm colours are used at night and when we are at George & Jean's house whilst more muted and sterile colours are used for daytime scenes particularly for scenes at the Agency. all set to a wonderfully jazzy score by Soderbergh's regular composer David Holmes. The production design is splendid, George & Jean's house's is so idyllic this contrasts beautifully with scrupulously high tech work It wo...
