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Sun, Jan 01, 2006
The Constant Gardener
The Film:
Straightforward, conventional, obviously a bureaucrat who knows how to follow procedure Justin (Ralph Fiennes) is impressed by a beautiful woman (Rachel Weisz) who asks uncomfortable questions. He offers her a drink, she accepts, they both end up at her place. At the beginning sex is all that connects the two but as the relationship progresses Justin and Tessa find themselves madly in love. Life seems goodÂ…until one day Justin receives a note that Tessa has been brutally murdered on a desolate country road in Kenya.
But why, who in the world would want Tessa dead? Why would she be murdered in Kenya? What did Justin miss in a relationship where Tessa would often seem rather edgy in her comments but nonetheless normal? Slowly reconstr... Read the entire review
The Constant Gardener