The Sympathizer

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2024

Comedy
Crime/detective

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Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr plays multiple roles in an espionage thriller based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, which broadcasts on Sky Atlantic and streams exclusively on Now. A half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy (Hoa Xuande) serves as a Captain in Saigon for the South Vietnam army during the final days of the Vietnam War. The undercover mole flees to America with his General (Toan Le) and continues to gather covert intelligence about his new home. The agent is offered a job as a consultant on a Hollywood film about the conflict directed by auteur Niko Damianos (Downey Jr) and the experience reopens old wounds

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Jack Seale

A check of the credits confirms why this espionage thriller, based on the Pulitzer-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, looks so good: it’s co-created, co-written and initially directed by Park Chan-wook of Oldboy fame.

In Saigon 1975, a man known as the Captain (Hoa Xuande) is in the South Vietnam special police, but is secretly working for the North Vietnam army. When he meets CIA agent Claude (a fantastically overacting Robert Downey Jr) he is offered the chance of a new (double) life in the US. It’s a febrile, sprawling drama that will likely sweep you up in its grand narrative.

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