This is a TV drama (BBC and HBO combine) directed by Anthony Page is an adaptation of stage play by David Hare (Oscar nominee for The Reader and The Hours) by the same name. Its about a recovering alcoholic Paul Peplow (Paddy Considine) who is a poet and a journalist. He interviews a wealthy business man Victor Quinn (Jonathan Pryce) who has obsession for addicts. Eventually Paul meets Victor's wife Elsa (Uma Thurman) who is also a recovering alcoholic and finds out aboutVictor's obsession. He also falls in love with Elsa and things get complicated. The subject is very complicated considering its a story of addiction of the addicted????...sounds weird. What on Earth is this film about? For all its florid language, which dances prettily about topics like addiction, capitalism, and marriage, it has nothing of value to say. About the dialogues-the dialogues are so very elaborate and how on earth did the writer assemble so many words to express so little. Take this for an example in the opening scene Paul says in a voice over “Joseph Conrad says that inside every heart there burns a desire to set down once and for all a true record of what has happened". Who on earth speaks like this his, on his style of speaking some writer said he would announce going to bathroom as “Be not a slave to your own bladder. Plunge into the sublime toilet bowl!” The feel of the movie is British and mostly shot in various places in London. The movie is such a sucker (See Im using my brevity to the best hope the writer has the slightest of idea) I was lucky enough it lasted just 69 minutes. I am generally the one for eccentric movies but this one way above me. I hope you know what to do when you find a DVD of the movie...jus throw it in your garbage can. I must comment one thing though, stage drama is different and movies are different. You can adapt plays into movies but not copy paste it.
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