A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too much – so instead he decides to kill her.
Acting
Chris Cooper's devastating repression; Brosnan's charming emptiness.
Direction
Sachs channels Sirk and Hitchcock in a domestic pressure cooker.
Production
Gorgeously suffocating period design that traps everyone.
Director
Ira Sachs
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on John Bingham's 1955 novel 'Five Roundabouts to Heaven,' which Alfred Hitchcock nearly adapted.
Sachs deliberately cast against type: Cooper as romantic lead, Brosnan as hollow observer, McAdams as noir femme fatale.
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