Separate Lies (2005)
Country: GB
Technical: col 85m
Director: Julian Fellowes
Cast: Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson, Rupert Everett, Linda Bassett
Synopsis:
The contented commuter existence of a city lawyer is shattered when a tragic accident brings to light his wife's relationship with the ne'er-do-well son of the local squire.
Review:
Discreetly charming village drama of the well-heeled, with such a debt to Pinter/Losey's Accident one wonders why they bothered when the results are so much less excoriating. The later stages are marred by a cancerous death and grand gestures all round but up to that point there are some savourable moments of irony and discomfiture, laying bare the hypocrisy and fragility of individual happiness. Still, given the cast this is a serious disappointment.
Country: GB
Technical: col 85m
Director: Julian Fellowes
Cast: Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson, Rupert Everett, Linda Bassett
Synopsis:
The contented commuter existence of a city lawyer is shattered when a tragic accident brings to light his wife's relationship with the ne'er-do-well son of the local squire.
Review:
Discreetly charming village drama of the well-heeled, with such a debt to Pinter/Losey's Accident one wonders why they bothered when the results are so much less excoriating. The later stages are marred by a cancerous death and grand gestures all round but up to that point there are some savourable moments of irony and discomfiture, laying bare the hypocrisy and fragility of individual happiness. Still, given the cast this is a serious disappointment.
Country: GB
Technical: col 85m
Director: Julian Fellowes
Cast: Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson, Rupert Everett, Linda Bassett
Synopsis:
The contented commuter existence of a city lawyer is shattered when a tragic accident brings to light his wife's relationship with the ne'er-do-well son of the local squire.
Review:
Discreetly charming village drama of the well-heeled, with such a debt to Pinter/Losey's Accident one wonders why they bothered when the results are so much less excoriating. The later stages are marred by a cancerous death and grand gestures all round but up to that point there are some savourable moments of irony and discomfiture, laying bare the hypocrisy and fragility of individual happiness. Still, given the cast this is a serious disappointment.