Above all, Justin comes to respect the passion and drive of his late wife, even if he didn’t care to understand the full extent of her idealism while she was alive. And only after tragedy strikes does Justin realize the depth of his commitment, but in a way that avoids obvious sentimentality. Justin (Ralph Fiennes) and Tessa (Rachel Weisz, Oscar winner) are hardly the perfect couple, but they each serve a purpose for the other at a particular time. For while this is a stirring indictment of greed and corruption at the highest levels of power, there is also a love affair that, while flawed, resonates because it concerns the hunger of need. And in the tradition of The Parallax View or Three Days of the Condor, director Fernando Meirelles has crafted a film that responds to prevailing winds (in this case, that corporations are evil), and yet remains timeless in its human dimensions. The Constant Gardener is a bloody good thriller the sort of lean, intelligent drama with a conscience they used to pop out twice a month back in the early 1970s.
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