It's a Hitchcock-esque political feature film, at times creepy and at times goofy. Director Stephen Polyakov puts Romola Garai at the center of the vortex of events: sort of like Margaret Lockwood in "The Missing" or Cary Grant in "North by Northwest." A modern framing device appears in every scene she appears in, sadly diminishing some of the film's opaque elements. When Annie stumbles across something creepy, the audience sees everything through her eyes, so the audience wonders if she's a victim or not to be trusted. Stephen Polyakov's intensified dialogue and the actors' exaggerated renditions are a taste that has been developed, but somehow they mostly feel like the nightmarish feeling that hangs over Annie. If the plot were more convincing, the opening and epilogue would be less distracting
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The film tells the Second World War from a mysterious angle, the British cast is excellent, the film is flawed but not concealed, and each "turn" in the storyline is more than the road signs on London's most congested M25 road. Attractive
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