Ray Winstone as a creepy chauffeur with a price for freedom? Hard pass on this ride.
A beautiful young woman with every privilege except freedom. A despised older man with nothing except his obsession. Are they the key to one another’s salvation? Or are they destined to destroy each other and themselves? Having just finished a degree at Cambridge, Anjika Indrani has the world at her feet. However when her father announces that he intends for her to marry the son of his business associate, Anjika is angry and distraught at the unfairness of it. Then help is offered from an unlikely corner. Her father’s sinister chauffeur Don Flowers proposes a way out… but it comes at a cost.
Acting
Winstone leans full-throttle into sleazy menace.
Production
Cambridge privilege vs working-class desperation, visually stark.
Director
Sarah Harding
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
TV movie remake of 1973 British film 'The Story of a Love Story' (also called 'Indiscreet'), itself based on Somerset Maugham's 'The Letter'.
Nagra, fresh off 'Bend It Like Beckham' fame, was likely hoping for better material than this prestige-TV erotic thriller throwback.
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