The Constant Gardener
Grief-stricken and angry, a widower (Ralph Fiennes) sets out to uncover a potentially explosive secret involving his wife (Rachel Weisz)'s murder, big business, and corporate corruption and unearths some disturbing revelations.
25 January 1991, London
13 February 1943, Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England, UK
25 February 1972, Elmshorn, Germany
7 February 1946, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
1944, London, England, UK
July 03, 2007
a deeply intelligent and profoundly moral examination of a world where the political and the personal cannot ever be kept apart.
March 01, 2007
Elaborate, cynical, ambitious, eager, visually arresting, the film wants it all and gives plenty.
July 30, 2007
What it adds up to is a good yarn that uses real political concerns to make itself look beefier than the average Hollywood thriller.
September 01, 2005
Rises to a pitch of terror and outrage that leaves one shaken.
April 29, 2009
A sad, taut, and excellent global mystery.
August 31, 2005
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.
December 09, 2005
... Ralph Fiennes gives one of the year's subtlest, yet most exciting, screen performances ...
July 14, 2007
Mr. Fiennes, drawing his lips inward and adding just a slight quaver to his voice, gives his finest performance in almost a decade.
September 26, 2005
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.
August 31, 2005
The Constant Gardener is beautifully structured, an artful mix of forward motion and flashbacks.
November 27, 2007
Fernando Meirelles, codirector of City of God, stresses old-fashioned storytelling and takes full advantage of his cast, including Danny Huston.
