A weird and intriguing but only partly successful psychological drama based on the novel by Anita Shreve, telling twin parallel stories of emotional pain separated by 100 years. Catherine McCormack plays a photographer who gets her troubled husband Sean Penn to join her on a trip to New Hampshire, where she is taking pictures to accompany a magazine piece about a 19th-century murder. McCormack has to confront issues about her marriage as she unmasks the truth behind the murder. The acting (apart from Liz Hurley, who is merely decorative), photography and script are all excellent, but Kathryn Bigelow fumbles the direction, turning in an unsteady, sometimes flat and static film.

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