Rosie and Vincent have known each other for ten years, and have been married for five. She doesn't like her job, he isn't too pleased working with her dad. They're trying to have a baby. One morning Benoit, a Frenchman and former pen pal of Rosie, whom she never met, comes to visit. Did Rosie love him? Does she love him now?
Acting
Dervla Kirwan's raw, restless energy carries every scene.
Direction
Winterbottom finds beauty in cramped kitchens and rainy streets.
Director
Michael Winterbottom
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Winterbottom shot this between his harrowing 'Welcome to Sarajevo' and experimental 'The Claim'—it's his quiet domestic experiment that critics mostly ignored.
Christopher Eccleston and Dervla Kirwan had zero chemistry in rehearsals—Winterbottom kept it, using their awkwardness as marital rot.
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