Release
Date: August 31, 2005
Distributor: Focus Features
Film Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: United States
Director(s): Fernando Meirelles
Screenwriter(s): Jeffrey Caine
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston,
Bill Nighy, Hubert Koundé
Official Website: Click HERE
Synopsis:
From Fernando Meirelles,
the Academy Award-nominated director of "City of God,"
comes a gripping new film that sweeps audiences along one man's
emotional and global journey to uncover the truth behind a personal
loss and a worldwide conspiracy.
Two-time Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes
and Rachel Weisz head the cast of the romantic thriller "The
Constant Gardener," adapted by Jeffrey Caine from the novel
of the same name by John le Carre and filmed on location in Berlin,
London and Nairobi and numerous other parts of Kenya. The international
filmmaking team behind "The Constant Gardener" includes
producer Simon Channing Williams (Academy Award nominee for "Secrets
& Lies"), director of photography Cesar Charlone (Academy
Award nominee for Mr. Meirelles' "City of God"), editor
Claire Simpson (Academy Award winner for "Platoon"),
production designer Mark Tildesley ("28 Days Later")
and costume designer Odile Dicks-Mireaux ("Dirty Pretty Things").
In a remote area of Northern Kenya, the
region's most dedicated activist, the brilliant and passionate
Tessa Quayle (Rachel Weisz), has been found brutally murdered.
Tessa's traveling companion, a local doctor, appears to have fled
the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Sandy
Woodrow (Danny Huston), Sir Bernard Pellegrin (Bill Nighy) and
the other members of the British High Commission assume that Tessa's
widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin
Quayle (Ralph Fiennes), will leave the matter to their discretion.
They could not be more wrong...
This career diplomat's equilibrium has
been exploded by the loss of the woman he was deeply devoted to.
They were opposites whose attraction sustained a marriage, the
memories of which now spur Justin to take decisive action for
the first time in his life and diplomatic career. Haunted by remorse
and jarred by rumors of his wife's infidelities, Justin surprises
himself by plunging headlong into a dangerous odyssey. Determined
to clear his wife's name and "finish what she started,"
Justin embarks on a crash course to learn about the pharmaceutical
industry, whose crimes Tessa was on the verge of uncovering, and
journeys across two continents in search of the trust. His eyes
are soon opened to a vast conspiracy at once deadly and commonplace,
one that has claimed innocent lives – and is about to put
his own at risk.
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