The Human Factor

Just a bloke and a supermodel. An alluring movie several years ago--I may have been on a Preminger dip. Espionage without the violence--just bureaucrat maneuverings. Greene's prose is easily digested and frequently develops scenarios with slight continuous twisting. Occasional burden easing. There is a blank-face way the characters take on their hands. The movie understandably yields that quality for scenes of wider variation and unambiguous clashes. It's not reasonable to expect full Bressonian acting in any normal mileu anyway. I don't know if Greene ever finds this mode again. I'll have to find something to try. This is a great achievement--and not even considered among his best works