I wish I could, somehow, regain the 93 minutes I wasted in watching this film ... a film I had hoped would "come together." Even some basic explanations would have helped along the way ... e.g., how did she hurt her arm? who "magically" put a cast on it? In terms of production, as noted by another reviewer, I was shocked to see the large fake beach scene (a theater prop) accompanied by the sounds of waves and birds. But ... totally stationary. Any "willing suspension of disbelief" was totally blown away. This level of production was, IMHO, beneath the calibre of some of the major stars. Not asking to be spoon fed along the way ... just a little sense of continuity and credibility. What a disappointment.

AT the end I wish Bernie had just let Anna jump or better yet pushed her off the ledge. Caught this on Netflix in 2017. I THINK that the daughter and the grand-kid were BOTH imaginary - hence the baby sleeping sign was always on the door. Why was Anna phoning her own apartment from a phone booth? And what's with the old-fashioned touch phone in 2015? Where did the itchy cast on her broken arm come from - did she get it from killing the match.com date? London is photographed like NYC (Gotham) in a Batman movie and I half expected to see the Caped Crusader and Catwoman appear. This is a plot? HE'S a newly divorced cop (DCI Bernie Kominski - a Brit police chief with a Borsch Belt name and demeanor) who stumbles around like he's taken far too many of those Ambien pills he's seen swallowing. SHE'S a lonely, sixtyish woman who works selling mattresses in a department store and hallucinates she's living w/her (non-existent?) daughter and dead grand-kid. She does in-person speed-dating and during the process runs into a rough-trade character. During a sex hook-up with the dude she kills him in self-defense and can't remember the killing happened, much less that she did the deed herself. OY VEY Bernie! She ALSO doesn't remember that while day-dreaming during a babysitting stint she got forgetful (again) and let her grand-kid run off and get killed by a car. So she goes to the park and pushes an empty swing. Bernie gets to investigate the gory murder and despite his attraction to Anna, comes to suspect her and when he comes in for the arrest, she steps out onto the edge of the high-rise and threatens to jump. He pulls Anna (now the love of his heart) back. End of film....

I was tempted to give this 10/10 simply to compensate for the idiots who gave this film 1 and 2 out of 10. I didn't ultimately but it gives me the sh*ts when I see people unfairly rating down a film. With an average 6/10 I might not have watched this - and it was a genuinely decent film. The story is coherent and the plot competent. The way in which the central event of the film is slowly revealed is sophisticated and worked well. Both Charlotte Rampling and Gabriel Byrne are top rate leading actors and both do a good job. Rampling's performance was particularly convincing. Casting mature actors in these lead roles (without making a big thing about it) was quite believable and worked really well. The setting, the cinematography, the late-night London insomniac noir all create a compelling atmosphere. It's a genre film and, as such, isn't fabulously original, but is nonetheless well worth watching.

I didn't like it at all, I kept unmoved and bored. And, after reading the fact that the film director was Rampling's son, I understood everything... Awfully bad directed. Not even an actor of the calibre of Mr Byrne can save this movie from being a bad version of a film noir. Sorry for Ms Rampling but even her was not convincing at all. I also spotted a scene at a beach where the sea was just a theatre set! That was really bad. There was a static view of the sea just behind the figure of Ms Rampling. I was so distracted by this fact that I had to rewind a little to see if I lost anything from the plot. Won't recommend it.