The Pigeon Tunnel

This documentary brings together two great minds for a definitive conversation. Novelist John Le Carré – whose cynical and searching novels of British spies and the shadows in which they dwell have made him a worldwide bestseller – meets documentarian Errol Morris. Morris – in films including The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War and Mr Death – presses hard on the inconsistencies and half-truths on which we build our lives, unraveling the truth using only his subjects’ own words.

Completed shortly before Le Carré’s death in 2020, Morris’s film finds his subject eloquent and open, from his con man father to the move from real life spy to writer of spy fiction. Absorbing company, revealingly captured make this one of the best documentaries of the year.