In Red Joan, that life is recast as a tale of love, ideology and the folly of youth. Judi Dench is written large on all the billboards and publicity materials for the film but it’s the actor, Sophie Cookson, who plays the character during her youthful years that enjoys the most screen time. The is largely done through extensive back stories as the film begins with Joan’s arrest.

Young Joan is presented as a woman of science with an active intelligence and an abhorrence to the death and violence the years during and after World War Two created. She was also seduced by the attraction she had to a young communist firebrand Leo Galich (Tom Hughes). He abuses this attraction for his own ends.

More character study than spy thriller, the film shows how youthful ideology can become an adult passion. Senior Joan never backs down from her stance on why she provided the Russians with information and it rings true with the reality with how the cold war played out before the fall of the Soviet Union.

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In a picturesque village in England, Joan Stanley (Academy Award® winner Dame Judi Dench), lives in contented retirement. Then suddenly her tranquil existence is shattered as she’s shockingly arrested by MI5.

For Joan has been hiding an incredible past; she is one of the most influential spies in living history. Cambridge University in the 1930s, and the young Joan (Sophie Cookson), a demure physics student, falls intensely in love with a seductively attractive Russian saboteur, Leo. Through him, she begins to see that the world is on a knife-edge and perhaps must be saved from itself in the race to military supremacy.

Post-war and now working at a top secret nuclear research facility, Joan is confronted with the impossible: Would you betray your country and your loved ones, if it meant saving them? What price would you pay for peace? Inspired by an extraordinary true story, Red Joan is the taut and emotional discovery of one woman’s sacrifice in the face of incredible circumstances.

Red Joan is in Australian cinemas June 6!
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