I never thought I would say this, but Colin Farrel was absolutely awesome! He held his own acting alongside people like Ralph Fiennes and Brendan Gleesen. That's no small feat. I read a review by a user on Amazon and he referred to Farrel as 'emotionally open'. I think he's absolutely right. That's exactly what Farrel has going for him. It's probably why I thought he was so likable back in stuff like Phone Booth and  Tigerland. This is, without question, the best thing that I've watched this year (that was released this year).  An intelligent scrīpt, charming characters, awesome locales- It goes wrong nowhere. Watch it!

What a piece of crap. It was worse than Elektra. The plot/800000000 subplots were dull, the characters were murdered, and never have there been more extreme close ups of such unattractive leads. I have no idea how you go from Spiderman 2 to this. Unless it was intentional.

Wow, so that's how you fix a passionless marriage. I really loved everything about this, from the voyeuristic quality of the cinematography to the strangely dissonant music that seems to represent bizarre workings of the husband's mind. He was really strange to me. She lies next to him in bed after moisturizing her legs and such(yowza), and he just rolls over; They're at a nightclub and she asks him to dance, he says: Pas maintenant; Furthermore, he chooses to watch a 10 inch television set instead of doing anything with his beautiful wife. Bizarre!  What choice did she have but to become unfaithful?

But for some reason, I really like these characters who live in a world of repressed feeling and shopworn social graces. Especially when one of them is played by Stéphane Audran. I could barely get through a scene without taking  pause to appreciate the raw power of her sensuality. Though really, all of that is very subtle. There's just something vaguely cold and unaffected about the way she carries herself that moves me. But I'm actually disgusted by the quality of this DVD. The image is blurry, full of noise, and the sound is atrocious. For shame, World. For shame!



Another Winner! It's every bit a psychologically engaging as I've come to expect. The acting was amazing.




 Claude Chabrol hasn't let me down yet!  However, Suzanne Flon steals the show here. It's hard to imagine a more endearing perfomance.