The documentary ”The Pigeon Tunnel” features filmmaker Errol Morris in conversation with the late spy turned novelist John le Carré.
The late British author David Cornwell, better known by his pen name John le Carré, is the subject of the documentary “The Pigeon Tunnel.” During the conversation that constitutes the bulk of “The Pigeon Tunnel,” interviewer Errol Morris accuses British novelist John le Carré of being a con artist, a betrayer and an empty vessel. Le Carré's usual response is to smile and agree.
Filmed about a year before le Carré’s death in 2020, Morris’s interviews with the bushy-eyebrowed author turn largely on his relationship with his father, Ronnie Cornwell, a con man who spent more than six years in various prisons. Also conspicuous in the writer’s childhood, if mostly by her absence, was his mother, who left her husband and two sons when le Carré was 5.
Le Carré is willing to discuss his own failings as a person, and positively eager to indict his father for his. But he flatly refuses to discuss his love life — reportedly complicated — and family, although there’s evidence that he got along well with sons Simon Cornwell and Stephen Cornwell: They’re among the film’s producers. Morris doesn’t ask about any possible faults as a writer, and le Carré doesn’t volunteer any.
“This is a performance art,” announces the author at the movie’s opening, and what follows seems mainly to follow his script. Le Carré controls the tunnel, and the movie’s viewers are — frustratingly but at least not fatally — his pigeons.
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