A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.
Acting
Anne Reid's devastating, fearless vulnerability as May.
Direction
Roger Michell makes discomfort absolutely riveting.
Writing
Hanif Kureishi's script refuses easy moral answers.
Director
Roger Michell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Daniel Craig took this role right before Bond, reportedly to prove he could do vulnerable, messy sexuality rather than just suave action hero.
The film sparked debates about the 'invisible woman' phenomenon—how cinema typically erases older women's sexuality, and whether this film's explicitness was liberating or exploitative.
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