Director: Lydia Dean Pilcher
Rating: Four stars, Streaming on Amazon Prime
A Call to Spy is a rare World War II film that doesn’t seek to strike awe and fear the requisites now to win battles. Quite in character with its heroes, a group of largely unheralded women spies (“the headless”, as they were called) who helped Resistance efforts in a France occupied by Hitler’s Army, it is un-showy and un-bombastic, populated by little people meeting their little deaths, not with big, big bangs but with big, big hearts.
For us, in the subcontinent, of course, A Call to Spy is vital as one of the people it shines light on is Noor Inayat Khan, born to an India-born Sufi mystic and a British mother, who was picked for her wireless abilities, placed in one of the toughest posts during the war, and was commended for bravely holding onto it till the end.
A Call to Spy movie review: Radhika Apte-starrer is un-showy and un-bombastic
Director Lydia Dean Pilcher uses Radhika Apte well in the role of Noor Inayat Khan, not overplaying or undermining her Eastern ancestry, placing the talented actor shoulder-to-shoulder among her contemporaries.
Rating: 4 out of 5 Updated: December 12, 2020 8:48:05 am
A Call to Spy is streaming on Amazon Prime Video. (Photo: White Turtle Studios)
A Call to Spy cast: Sarah Megan Thomas, Radhika Apte, Stana Katic, Linus Roache, Rossif Sutherland
A Call to Spy director: Lydia Dean Pilcher
A Call to Spy rating: Four stars
A Call to Spy is a rare World War II film that doesn’t seek to strike awe and fear the requisites now to win battles. Quite in character with its heroes, a group of largely unheralded women spies (“the headless”, as they were called) who helped Resistance efforts in a France occupied by Hitler’s Army, it is un-showy and un-bombastic, populated by lit