With director Andrew Haigh currently enjoying a high profile for 'All of Us Strangers' now's a good moment to recall his earlier award-winning chamber piece teaming two actors who came to eminence in the 1960s of whom Charlotte Rampling was nominated for an Oscar.
Filmed in Norfolk and evoking the milieu of seventies Chabrolian French bourgeois drama it depicts a marriage suffering the strain of a discovery that recalls German mountain films of the twenties.
As the husband Tom Courtney still displays the dishevelled charm of the long distance runner while Rampling's glacial grace has mellowed in a manner that's quite disarming.
Filmed in Norfolk and evoking the milieu of seventies Chabrolian French bourgeois drama it depicts a marriage suffering the strain of a discovery that recalls German mountain films of the twenties.
As the husband Tom Courtney still displays the dishevelled charm of the long distance runner while Rampling's glacial grace has mellowed in a manner that's quite disarming.