other than good performance from juliette binoche and sara forestier and the likable newcomer tom riley and this movie doesn not have much to recommend it . aim to be a metaphoric spy movie about the evil of secrecy and the wound of childhood and the film fail for have plot device instead of character and a sloppy and unconvincing direction and result in an overall bore . we be also treat with highly annoy anti american propaganda . nick nolte pop up in the last ten minute like a poor man colonel kurtz but his appearance come too late to wake up the movie . for works play successfully play with the thriller genre and try some of paul austersbooks or wim wendersearlier film instead . skip this one .