You can't watch this film while doing something else at the same time - it demands full concentration, which is probably why some reviewers have panned it - they missed too many clues and perhaps didn't even concentrate when everything (or almost everything) dropped into place at the end. While most of the story seems to revolve around Kit Winter, the unlikely hero, pretty everyone else has a part to play in the structure of the plot. And it isn't just the clever story - there are other gems, for example the Registrar's face when he explains that it's too late. In fact, the film is so packed with clever details that you should only watch it if you can stay wide awake for the full 90 minutes. Not for those who spend half the time eating crisps or fooling about with their mobiles. Highly recommended.

In London, a Spanish woman finds passion with a stranger a week before she is to be married. The main attraction here (other than the leading lady) is a somewhat clever plot twist. Unfortunately, there's little else. Making his first feature film, writer-director Parkhill tries to put in every trick he learned from watching MTV videos. It comes across as amateurish in terms of story and direction, botching whatever potential the film had of being a decent thriller. As the temperamental Carmen, Verbeke is hot looking but her acting is lukewarm. As the Latin lover, Bernal doesn't do much except look intense. D'Arcy, who looks like Norman Bates in "Psycho," is rather bland as the ditched husband.

A very interesting movie. It captures your attention. It's unusual. It's moving. Tension is created when it's needed, so that you can't relax. The main character - Carmen - is passionate, unyielding, strong but fragile at the same moment. The mystery she's involved is carefully concealed from the audience till the end.But the way it's revealed in the end crosses out almost everything that was so good and unusual. A typical bad guy who's to be blamed for everything steps up. His disguise is torn off, the main character - Kit - is clean; the ugly truth crushes down upon Carmen's shoulders. And after all that justice is done upon James d'Arcy's character. Dot the i.Still, 6/10.

Young Brazilian guy in London falls in love with Spanish girl about to be married to a rich English man. Featuring heaps of video cameras ...Preposterous and badly written, the visual style is jarring and too self-consciously cool for the story to make much sense. Films like this one are too easy to make. They are all about coming with with a new surprise twist every 15 minutes, and they don't even have to be good, so long as they keep us surprised they don't need to add up. And then, if you say that it is a meta-indie-flick, all opposition among cineasts must be stilled.Or ...? Well, I don't buy into it. The recent 'Wicker Park' tried to do the same, boasting a non-linear plot line that covered the fact that there was no actual story to tell. 'Memento' had something it wanted to convey, but that was the exception. Too many movies nowadays ape this faux-documentary style because they hope the jarring aesthetics will keep us riveted, but without substance I dare say they will not.The film's first-time director, who, alas, is also the writer (almost always a bad idea) insists on not giving away his secrets, knowing that his house of cards will tumble down first chance it gets.The lead character Carmen is utterly unsympathetic, in the tradition we know from fatal French cinema, 'Betty Blue' and so on, her English boyfriend is a convenient caricature of the rich papa's boy slash cynical rich fart. The most startling thing about the film, in a good way, was James D'Arcy's suicide scene which was really well-played, and I must say that he was the only actor to actually get something out of this venture, although his part stinks.Gael Garcia Bernal seriously needs a career counselor, he won't survive much more muck like this one