Rating: 6.2/10
Director: Patrice Chéreau
Writers: Hanif Kureishi (stories), Anne-Louise Trividic
Stars: Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Susannah Harker
Runtime: 1h 59min
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 28 March 2001

Summary: Jay (Rylance) is a bartender who abandoned his family, because his wife lost interest in him and their relationship.

Now living alone in a decrepit house, he has casual weekly sex with an anonymous woman (Fox), whose name he doesn’t know. At first, their relationship is purely physical, but he eventually falls in love with her.

Wanting to know more about her, Jay follows her across the streets of London to the grey suburbs where she lives. He then follows her to a pub theatre where she is working as an actress in the evenings. Jay learns that her name is Claire, and she has a husband (Timothy Spall) and a son. Subsequently it is made clear to Jay that Claire will not leave her family. They meet for a final time, and have sex with an intimacy that has been missing during the illicit sex sessions of their previous encounters.

Note: Audio is only in English.