Secrets of State

Secrets of State

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Release Date

12/10/2008

Runtime

100 mins

Genres

Overview

In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation follow the same methods. Alex and Al Barad are two of them. The former is the head of the D.G.S.E.'s (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure, the French equivalent of the CIA or the MI6) counter-terrorism unit while the latter reigns over a terrorist network, and both fight using the most ruthless of weapons: human beings.

Status

Released

Original Language

French

Budget

$15,000,000

Revenue

-

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A morally murky cat-and-mouse game where the line between hunter and hunted dissolves, told with the cold efficiency of a procedural but the philosophical weight of a deeper reckoning about the cost of playing such games.

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TenseParanoidBleak

Themes

PowerCorruptionIdentity

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Steady

Look

NaturalisticDocumentary-like

Structure

Linear

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Graphic violence

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