At 73, John Madden looks like a British gentleman.
The director of
Shakespeare in Love
, the seven-Oscar comedy, likes to mix British humour, a pinch of
nonsense
with deeper reflections on the profession of director, while remaining very modest.
The author of spy films like
The Rachel Singer Affair
, or bittersweet comedies such as
Indian Palace
, this time tackles a historical film telling the true story of an Allied disinformation offensive that changed the course of the war in 1943, "Operation Mincemeat".
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- How did you find out about "Operation Mincemeat"?
John MADDEN.-
It was done in two stages.
As I am part of the baby boomer generation, this story seemed to me like a kind of urban legend.
I remembered that the young Ian Fleming, in 1939, had drawn up a list of stratagems to fool the enemy, including the one who proposed to drop a corpse disguised as an English airman...
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