Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11562 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-01-06
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 115 minutes

From The New Yorker
Jay (Mark Rylance) and Claire (Kerry Fox) meet for sex every Wednesday in Jay's unfurnished London flat. Photographed in a ghostly light, the two grapple silently; their lovemaking is more about hunger and release than pleasure. The director Patrice Chéreau, adapting stories by Hanif Kureishi, seems to be attempting a generational portrait of Londoners in their thirties who are not quite gifted or single-minded enough to fulfill their dreams-failed musicians, painters, and actors who have drifted into wretchedness and bickering. The movie has some fine moods of bafflement and rage, but much of it is garbled and rather vague. The camera, right on top of the actors, seems to be chASINg something that it can't find. With Timothy Spall as Claire's faithful husband, by far the most fully created character in the movie. -David Denby
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

Does not convey enough emotion
Can a midlife crisis be fulfilled with sex alone? To save you time from watching this movie the short answer to that question is "no". Protagonists are Jay, divorced father of two young boys who not so long ago simple walked out on his family for no other reason but the fact that he was unhappy. Claire, his lover who he meets on Wednesday afternoons is married woman, an actress and a mother of a young boy. We do not know how these two met, but we do know that they are pulled to each other. Their sex is raw and immediate, there is not much foreplay. Jay does not even strike me as a good lover, his hair is receding, his nails are too long, his apartment where he and his lover meet and make love is appauling much like Claire's own husband. We see her husband who is a cab driver, well aware that his wife is "uneven" and quite tolerant of it becuase after all - he loves her. Both Jay and Claire have their dreams crushed. He is a failed musician, she is a failed actress. Their relationships with their family is strained one and it is not due to faults of their long suffering spouses or children. Both of them suffer from misery that is self imposed. Worse of all, they have no direction, goal or ambition; they simply drift thru life and the only way they feel intense is when they make love. But sex alone cannot sustain them and they both know it. They will have to find a better way to define themselves if they wish to rid of emptiness, unhappiness without cause and silent rage directed towards people around them. Until that happens both are hopelessly lost.

intense!
i gave this movie a 4 out of five stars because i never seen a movie like this b4 it didn,t explain how they got 2gether but the sex scenes where like wow! it started so fast after that then the movie got rolling they both were unhappy at home they both stayed because of children so it seemed but the way the husband found out was really sad but the main characters just had this unwavering need 4 each other no words just action until the end when he wanted her to stay but she couldn,t i wanted her to leave and stay with him but she had a son and children should always come first so as the 2 would say next wednesday then!

Very well Made.. Not what I expected
I think this movie is worth seeing if you want to. You must be into these kind of movies to aprecaite the level behind these movies. Although i did not give this movie a "5" star rating it is becasue when i bought it i was expecting somthing more. Do research before you see this movie, you'll be glad you did. Also this movie is very explicite and should only be seen by 17+. Which if your a teenager trying to see this movie, please see other like it. For example Romance, Antanomy of hell and of course 9 songs.

BE ADVISED ALL OF THESE MOVIES ARE EXPLICITE AND SHOULD ONLY BEE SEEN BY ADULTS!!

In short veiwers i like the movie but when i bought it it lacked a certain somthing. The scenes are good and the plot sucks but the only reason i bought this movie is so i could add it to my collection.

Thank you.