Our happy couple have been in Africa for some time. Together, they are complete.įast forward several years to the present. Everything that she is, he wishes he could be.

Faced with an unbridled passion and intelligence the likes of which he has never seen, Justin is more than drawn to Tessa.

Speaking at a lecture, Justin is more than taken aback when he is vociferously beaten by this fearless young woman over Britain’s involvement in the Iraq War. Soft-spoken and seemingly unaffected by the world around him, thunder roars and lightening clashes on his first meeting with Tessa, an outspoken political activist who works as an aid worker to the impoverished people of the world. He is resigned to his station in life, appearing to be someone who would be more at home in the post-Colonial days of the British Empire. Justin Quayle is a diplomat for the British foreign service who has recently been sent to Africa. And like a double edged sword, “The Constant Gardener” is both a thriller and a romance. Caine, whose best work to date, I believe, was “Golden Eye” with Pierce Brosnan as Agent 007, is no stranger to action, adventure, intrigue and romance, so it comes as no surprise to me that this adaptation is as high caliber as it is. (How often you ever read that line from me?) In what is indisputably the best film adaption of any John le Carre novel, “The Constant Gardner” pairs up Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz in an intelligent and interesting story of political intrigue, greed and corruption written for the screen by Jeffrey Caine. Talk about a surprising turn of events – a film that actually does justice to the book from which it was adapted.

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