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Grief-stricken and angry, a widower (Ralph Fiennes) sets out to uncover a potentially explosive secret involving his wife (Rachel Weisz)'s murder, big business, and corporate corruption and unearths some disturbing revelations.
Fiennes carries Le Carré's spirit with a slow-burning performance that operates on two fronts: As a powerful indictment of third-world abuses by pharmaceutical companies, and as a widower's moving investigation into his shattered relationship.
September 26, 2005
Film Journal International
Elaborate, cynical, ambitious, eager, visually arresting, the film wants it all and gives plenty.
Meirelles clearly trusts his actors, particularly Fiennes and Weisz: The plot of The Constant Gardener is fairly intricate, but in the end, the story is told mostly in their faces.