This cerebral thriller from writer-director Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton) combines high-stakes intrigue with good old-fashioned romantic banter a la Hepburn and Tracy. Roberts, at the top of her game, plays ex-CIA agent Claire Stenwick, a woman whose spy skills are rivaled only by her ex-M16 counterpart Ray (a smoldering Clive Owen). The two first meet at a party, flirt and fall into bed together--except then she drugs him and makes off with secret codes. When they meet again, they are now working for rival corporations and the codes are secret recipes for shampoo and frozen foods, but the sexual and intellectual tensions are still high. The film jetsets tantalizingly between New York, London, Rome, Dubai, and the narrative is sliced apart so that the audience is as in-the-dark about whom to trust as the ex-spies. Paul Giamatti and Tom Wilkinson star as corporate titans who aren't above a petty fistfight on a tarmac. "Superior entertainment." (NY Times) more at duplicitymovie.net 35mm Cinemascope
2009, color, 2 hours 5 minutes, USA/Germany