Kristin Scott-Thomas is an accomplished actor, but she cannot save this desperate concatenation of clichés - unhappy housewife with two children, boring (and apparently misogynistic) husband, swarthy, sexy Latin lover, etc. Her character, Suzanne, elicits little or no sympathy, only bewilderment and contempt, and her husband, Samuel, seems much too good for her. The sex scenes between her and Ivan were risible. Ms. Corsini might have intended for the film to have a narrative and a them or themes, but it was impossible to detect any. If Ms. Corsini had any "punches to throw," she pulled them. Some of the scenery, however, was well-photographed, so at least Agnès Godard comes away with some credit.
