Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Lightdeossk Captivating movie !

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

tishco Expectations were high for this movie but it soon becomes clear that none of the characters are likable, all are broken and you can't relate to any of them.This movie is dark, disjointed moments in the lives of the two main characters and those in their lives.Do we still understand why the guy leaves his wife and two kids, even though he does seem to really miss them? Do we understand why everything is so dirty and so old and the weather is always so miserable? I like movies that make me work at understanding them, I like to be challenged by characters who are unlikable. The ending is inevitable, no one gets what they want, content in their disconnection from life.This movie left me feeling dirty, depressed and hopeless.Was that the intent of the director?

kikoshaus This movie is not good at all. Apart from the explicit sex scenes, which seemed to be the first ones to be screened in the UK, I do not see what's new about this movie.A man and a woman sharing their bodies for pleasure only. Sex-based communication and that's it. So, what else?Kerry's acting is fine enough though. A couple of scenes in foggy weather are interesting to watch. However, the man getting obsessed about her without being able to ask her a thing instead... it's just pathetic.If a movie needed to show explicit sex scenes without being in the category of "pornographic film" in the UK, then I don't get it why to write such a very simple plot with anything extraordinary in this. I think it's just a waste of time watching this film!

axxymax As i said one hat size doesn't fit all. I don't want to be judgmental about the characters or the way the story proceeds. i don't know which era was this film made in. just a note to the story writer do you know there is also something called counseling and therapy. They don't have any understanding of what marriage is. Another name for marriage is surrender and acceptance and patience. The three corner stones of relationship. okay the protagonist the lady goes around satisfying her physical sexual urge with this unknown guy to which a lot of feminist will say sexual freedom and what not. They will also blame the husband that he did not pay any attention to her needs both emotional and biological. I ask you is it entirely his fault. He is an ordinary bloke. what is the director trying to convey through this story. You can have all the good things in life and if your are smart enough you can have them all. any ways there was no chemistry between the actors. very bad acting over all. the sexual scenes are quiet believable. first time was a blow job being conducted in a main stream drama i guess. I say watch this movie only for the sex scenes they are very believable. thats it. nothing interesting here.

rosscinema With it's premise of anonymous sex and emotionally distant characters this in some ways resembles a cross between "Last Tango in Paris" and the recent "Closer" but the manner in which the material is handled fails to come even remotely close to those superior films. Story is about Jay (Mark Rylance) who's a divorced father of two boys and now is head bartender in a popular English pub. Every Wednesday afternoon he meets Claire (Kerry Fox) and the two of them have sex but do not discuss with each other who the other person is.*****SPOILER ALERT***** Claire stops coming by on Wednesdays and Jay starts to follow her around and discovers that she's an amateur actress working in a play in the back of a pub. Jay enters the establishment and views the play and actually meets Claire's husband Andy (Timothy Spall) and starts a friendship with him but after a few visits it becomes apparent to Andy what is going on between them.Patrice Chereau is an actor/director/writer and has worked a good deal in the theater and there are several scenes that take place with the actors that appear could have fit well in a stage production. The story takes an angry approach to it's characters as their portrayed as people who just cannot commit completely emotionally and while as interesting as that is it's hard to feel one way or another for those involved. In "Closer" we don't feel remorse but we do understand (and feel) their pain and anger but here the story tries so hard for the viewer to know how distant these people are that it ultimately becomes impossible to have one feeling or another. Spliced into this film are some pretty good performances and while Rylance shows he can carry a picture it's the always reliable Fox that is easier to identify with. Arguably the best performance comes from Spall (Secrets and Lies) who shows us a character that has good instincts but after all the years of marriage finds out that his wife is terribly unhappy. Chereau presents us with characters that had real potential but the script fails in terms of allowing the viewer to be interested in their struggles.