Anne Heche stars as a banker who moonlights as a call-girl, then unexpectedly embarks on a passionate affair with one of her clients, Joan Chen, the wife of nasty millionaire money launderer Christopher Walken. Steven Bauer is the fourth part of what would be an eternal triangle if there were three people involved. Cult film-maker Donald Cammell's weird erotic film-noir thriller - his final movie before committing suicide - was re-cut and released as a sex film, but restored to its original form by Channel 4, with a splendidly driving new score. It's a very dark, dangerous and depressing movie - quite perverted and kinky, so you can see why it might have had a previous life in US sex cinemas. Walken steals the show in one of his prize over-the-top performances to relish, but an underplaying Heche is very good indeed, and Chen and Bauer aren't bad at all in support. There's a brillliant movie trying to get out here, though Cammell hasn't quite succeeded in realising it. But, with its sharp reminders of various Hitchcock obsessions and themes, not to mention Cammell's own Performance, it's still mesmering in its own way, for those with very strong stomachs or very specialist tastes.

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