Wednesday April 20th  2022
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UK   2018  101 minutes
Director: Trevor Nunn
Starring: Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Tom Hughes

Respectable, retired 80 year-old Joan Stanley is suddenly arrested at her home on the unlikely grounds that she is a Russian spy. As she is interrogated, a series of flashbacks show her university days as a physics student, and her later employment in a government research establishment. But this is not an unusual career path for a qualified scientist of her generation. Can she really be a Russian spy? Little by little her views and attitudes over time are explored, as she begins to realise the implications of her work on nuclear fission. A tantalising thriller.