A Call To Spy: Important slice of history
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A Call To Spy : A Call To Spy
Cast: Sarah Megan Thomas, Stana Katic, Radhika Apte, Linus Roache, Samuel Roukin
Direction: Lydia Dean Pilcher
BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY
You would expect more suspense and drama given the subject at hand, and the sense of overall underwhelming does surprise you. Director Lydia Dean Pilcher has borrowed from one of the most intriguing chapters of World War II, but her effort fails to fully engage because the film falters at a storytelling level.
Pilcher s film is set at the start of the Second World War, when British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in a frantic bid to thwart Hitler s mighty Nazi army, commissioned a unique agency of spies the Special Operations Executive (SOE) which would constitute women.