A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.
Acting
Weisz weaponizes vulnerability before she was famous.
Direction
Winterbottom's restless camera invades every private moment.
Score
Adrian Johnston's melancholic guitar haunts the entire film.
Director
Michael Winterbottom
Rachel Weisz
Helen
Alessandro Nivola
Martin
Luka Petrušić
Honda
Labina Mitevska
Smokey
Carmen Ejogo
Amber
Ben Daniels
Bob
Graham Crowden
Old Man
Geraldine O'Rawe
Sonja
Steve John Shepherd
Sam
David Hounslow
Frank
Phyllida Law
Woman at Hairdresser #1
Kenny Doughty
Smokey's Friend
Des McAleer
Flowers Salesman
Julian Rivett
Billy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Winterbottom shot this immediately after Welcome to Sarajevo, using some of the same Balkan crew and locations for the Brighton-set film.
This bombed so hard in 1998 that it became a rare Weisz performance — overshadowed by her blockbuster turn months later in The Mummy.
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