Flicks, Aaron Yap
Interrogation dramas tend to be rather stagy - some might say, un-cinematic - affairs on the whole, and Pascal Verdosci’s Cold War flick Manipulation is no different. Based on Swiss author Walter Matthias Diggelmann's 1962 novel The Interrogation of Harry Wind, the film gets by on the strength of its performances and narrative intrigue, but comes off perhaps a tad too low-key to deliver the potency one might want from a story involving the startling revelations that the Swiss army had plans to let off nuclear bombs back in the late ‘50s.
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