Obsession and doubt control four friends' relationship.Obsession and doubt control four friends' relationship.Obsession and doubt control four friends' relationship.
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Philip Rosch
- Policeman 2
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- TriviaAlthough filmed in 2001, the film wasn't released until three years later.
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Smart but very very bleak
One suspects the director is rebelling against the saccharine relationship movies that have swamped cinemas in the last decade because this is very bleak stuff. It is also very very smart. A naked married couple open the film in the tub and we're immediately thrown into the jealous paranoia of the wife, impressively played by Gina Bellman in her best role in years. As buff but dim hubby protests his innocence we relax in familiar rom-com mode but are soon shaken awake as the film shifts gear into a very explicit and (misogynistic) second relationship, the unmarried couple of TV fave Ben Daniels and his skeletal girlfriend Kim (Vogue model Kirsten Mcmenemy). Daniels unleashes a character never seen before in his numerous TV roles that's for sure! He is full of seductive menace and quiet venom, a cross between Casanova and Hannibal Lecter, tormenting Kim with brutal dominance to satiate his fetish and hate. The film shifts between the characters in satisfying chunks, revealing more of the story within the big bold colors that fill the screen within each carefully designed set-piece. What we lack is some humor and humility, some air to lift us out of the suffocation because this is strong stuff, ear-popping dialogue, gratuitous and necessary with equal measure. Not as good as Sex Lies & Videotape, but pretty damn brave for a Brit-flick.
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- avavnow
- Apr 17, 2008
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