Good British movie alert! This one’s going to require a few extra viewings to fully decipher, but the atmosphere is perfectly built-up, it’s sad, lonely, eerie, and finally shocking. I love the way the director uses double images to distort reality and confuse the viewer, for example, when Colin Firth and Mena Suvari are looking at an old photo album of him and is dead wife, and they come across a picture of them in the exact same pose that we can see Firth and Suvari in. There’s another weird disorienting moment early on when Firth wanders accidentally into a crime reconstruction scene. Suddenly everyone is frozen around him. For a moment you think the movie’s going to turn into Vanilla Sky or The Matrix, then a disembodied voice yells action, and everything starts to move again. I love stuff like this.

I’d recommend this as a double bill with last year’s other great British thriller, Freeze Frame. Give yourself a healthy burst of paranoia

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