A study in voyeurism and the breakdown of love, told with great style by director Paul Schrader (who made 'Taxi Driver', 'Cat People' and 'Patty Hearst'). The elegantly contrived screenplay by Harold Pinter is faithful to the fairly wicked novel by Ian McEwan. It charts the effect on an English couple, played by Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson of an encounter with a dangerously-liberated pair - Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren. Some critics dismissed it as an uninvolved and uninvolving charade, others found its carousel of emotion and imagination strangely fascinating. It was an Italian production, made on location in Venice in English.

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