Jim Broadbent gives an engaging and sympathetic performance in the movie. It is a movie with an intriguing premise and it's never anything other than watchable and well acted. But considering that the story is about suicide and forbidden love, it is oddly desiccated, detached, even passionless sometimes. The flashback to the 1960s youth are important for giving the story depth and drama.
Broadbent plays tony a retiree divorced from his elegant and beautiful wife.
It is an absorbing story in many ways. The revival of jealousy and subsequent stalking behaviour reminded me of the end of the affair.
But exasperatingly, the sense of the ending never delivers the strong, clear storyline impact that we appear to be leading up to, and the final discovery is a bit opaque is has to be inferred and key events are not shown in the flashback.
