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TENET DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN S TA R R I N G J O H N D AV I D WA S H I N G T O N, R O B E R T PAT T I N S O N, ELIZABETH DEBICKI R E L E A S E DAT E 1 7 J U LY
HOW IMPENETRABLE IS THE
operatives seem to have found a
VEIL OF SECRECY AROUND
way to use time travel to combat
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S LATEST
world-imperilling threats. “We’re
BLOCKBUSTER? Just ask Robert
jumping off from the point of view
Pattinson, who was only permitted
of an espionage film, but we’re going
to read its script inside a locked-tight
to a number of different places,”
room. It was a price worth paying for
reveals Nolan himself, who calls
the Twilight star, who says what he
Tenet, “the most ambitious film we
read that day was “unreal”. Nolan,
have ever made”.
he continues, “seems like the only director now who can do what
genres in a hopefully exciting and
is essentially a very personal,
fresh way,” continues the filmmaker,
independent movie that has huge
who shot it in India, Estonia and five
scale.” It’s an opinion shared by his
other countries. “We’ve put together
Tenet co-star Aaron Taylor-Johnson,
a lot of large-scale productions, but
who applauds the Dunkirk director
this is certainly the biggest in terms
for “trying to push the boundaries of
of international reach.”
cinema”. “It was a real honour and
With a cast that is top-lined by
pleasure to be in his presence,” said
BlacKkKlansman’s John David
the actor last year. “But to be honest,
Washington and Widows’ Elizabeth
there’s nothing else I can really say
Debicki, and which includes Sir
about it.”
Kenneth Branagh, Yesterday’s
So what do we know about
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“We’re crossing a few different
Himesh Patel and Nolan regular Sir
Nolan’s palindromic puzzler?
Michael Caine, Tenet looks set to be
According to its distributor, it’s “an
another winner from one of Britain’s
action epic evolving from the world
most unpredictable auteurs.
of international espionage”, in
Inception, it would appear, was
which an elite task force of shadowy
only the beginning.
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