The Francis Lawrence-directed “Red Sparrow” was given a hard R in the States. It starred Jennifer Lawrence as a Russian spy and, by, all accounts, the sexuality and violence in the film was something that we rarely see these days in a big studio movie. J-Law even delivered the first nude scene of her career. The film itself was a well-made spy thriller, albeit one with some overlength issues, but, again, it was the kind of adult drama that is rarely greenlit these days in Hollywood.
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Francis Lawrence‘s "Red Sparrow" (Which opens on March 2nd) was shot in Hungary, Slovakia, Austria and, very briefly, London. Its globe-trotting pace is breezily felt, and, as far as spy thrillers go, the film is successful at convening fresh blood into a genre that has been done to death at the movies. "Red Sparrow" is a 139-minute cold-war spy-thriller that is as much about sex as it is about spying.
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