HOstage
Type: Thriller, political drama
Director: Matt Charman. With Suranne Jones, Julie Delpy, Corey Mylchreest, Ashley Thomas, Martin McCann, Isobel Akuwudike, Mark Lewis Jones, Jehnny Beth, Sophie Robertson. On Netflix
Abigail Dalton is the new English prime minister grappling with an internal crisis on the health and immigration front. For this, and also to apologize after an unhappy out of wave, it is found Forced to ask the French homologous Vivienne Toussaint for helpskilled and shrewd, determined to move to the right in order to win the second term.
In the days of an official meeting between the two a Downing Street comes the news that the husband of the British premier, engaged in a mission together with colleagues of doctors without borders, was kidnapped by a commando of terrorists in the French Guyana.
From left, Suranne Jones, Isobel Akuwudike and Ashley Thomas in “Hostage” (Photo Des Willie / Netflix).
Between Dalton and Toussaint he begins a tense war of nerves, where the diplomacy and personal feelings intertwine in a countdown to save human lives.
Hostage (Netflix) is a political thriller that seems to follow the classic canons of the genre; The symbols of power, cynicism, complex intrigues between public and private guide a narrative in which they let themselves be discovered complex plots that invest the high levels of British politics and army.
Against the background of this political drama, the figures of two women struggling with ambition, family and struggle for power stand out. For those who love thrillers who enter the buildings of politics trying to decipher it.
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