The Constant Gardener (film)

The Constant Gardener is a 2005 political thriller film directed by Fernando Meirelles. The screenplay by Jeffrey Caine is based on the John le Carr novel of the same name. The film follows Justin Quayle Ralph Fiennes, a British diplomat in Kenya, as he tries to solve the murder of his wife Tessa Rachel Weisz, an Amnesty activist, alternating with many flashbacks telling the story of their love.

Justin Quayle Ralph Fiennes, a shy lowlevel British diplomat and horticultural hobbyist posted in Kenya, is one to avoid making a fuss until he learns that his wife Tessa Rachel Weisz was found dead on the veld. Tessa has been murdered at a crossroads along with her Kenyan driver. Her doctor colleague Arnold Bluhm Hubert Kound is initially suspected of her murder but is later found to have himself been murdered on the same day as Tessa. Various rumours abound that the two were having an affair however, it is later revealed that Bluhm was gay.In flashbacks, we see how in London, Justin met his future wife Tessa, an outspoken humanitarian and Amnesty activist. He falls in love with her and she persuades him to take her back with him to Kenya. Despite their loving marriage, Tessa keeps from Justin the reason why she approached him in the first place to investigate a suspicious drug trial in Kenya and expose it. When Tessa starts getting too close to uncovering the malpractices of an influential and powerful pharmaceutical company, she and her colleague are brutally murdered. ........

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