First time I see these two actors, they've been in the theatre for very long, so their performances are top notch quality. The movie takes you to the land of unwelcome emotions and how they can ruin a relationship between two people, it happens everyday between friends, couples, lovers. Truth is sex can hurt without you realising. This movie is great at showing that, as you watch the intensely realistic sex scenes and then you see him alone waiting for her, you can feel his pain. I really liked the soundtrack it was upbeat and light. There are some drawbacks such as the actor playing husband is basically unrealistically ugly and dumb for the woman. It's got some really great scenes and definitely worth watching and it ends as it should end in real life. Very good.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I mean real drama. I mean the kind that is designed to turn you inside out rather than merely distract you from anything real. I think this is real. Its clearly meant to matter and designed so. Everyone involved is committed. The actors slightly cross that line about showing sex and therefore let us know that we are meant to take this as real, as intended. And we do.I'm sure it works for some viewers. It didn't for me, and I think the reason is simple. I'm not British. There are three main characters here, involved in a triangle, the tentativeness and purpose of which forms the spine of the story. But they are surrounded by others. Men with men and women with women. These characters I think are meant to define a sort of broken world, a sort of disordering set of forces in which our three are situated. So they are quirky, exaggerated, and because I'm seeing traits that I only see in other British films, they seem to be templates and therefore unreal. They seem to be from a store, that same store where you get eccentric secondary characters for romantic comedies, or that Bristish twist, the self- absorbed "Trainspotting" genre.This ruins the whole effect for me, because they may be real people, but they live in an unreal world, so the story doesn't matter.But there is one thing about this that is remarkable. Its the construction of the narrative.Remember that the whole thing depends on us getting the message that these actors are committed to being real? Our focus character is a woman who is an actress, trying to be real. More, as she in the movie is intent on showing us how to be real, she plays a character who is not only an actress with similar aspirations. But she has a job showing other less "talented" actors how to do the same. Its a really cool narrative fold. The problem with folds is that they are usually outside the narrative, a sort of metanarrative that declares the movie is fake. But you cannot really get much away without folding these days. So this writer has folded directly and openly within the story in a way devised to move the metanarrative away from outside the film to coming from within. Its a character folding, not an actor.Even though this did not work for me, it might for you. And this very clever engineering of narrative makes it worth watching.Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.

Far, far better than I had expected from the little I had heard (not having read the numerous IMDb reviews until just now). Harsh, explicit and uncompromising, this film hardly welcomes with open arms. In fact nobody in the London as depicted seems to even dare to open their arms, except the two main protagonists, and they dare not open their hearts. It is in many ways a desperate and cynical film but unfortunately the squalor and general air of intolerance is only too familiar. There are, however, glimpses of the humanity beneath the surface that enables a city like London, the people of a crowded, selfish city like London to relate, however briefly, however seemingly meaninglessly, to each other. We do not live in times where there is too much time (or opportunity) we must grab our pleasures, indeed our needs when we can. Desperate, yes but uncaring, no and indeed a most ambitious attempt to illustrate the true nature of many relationships and the struggle for freedom and gratification when everyone is cheek by jowl and in direct competition. Brave perceptive film making.

Picture your life this way if you can: You are a regular bloke. You work as a bartender in a pub. Your wife has left you and has custody over your two kids. Your friends are a gay and a totally whacked out stoner.The only thing you look forward to, is the afternoon of Wednesdays. That's when an annonymous female stranger knocks on your door, enters your home and the both of you have sex.Just sex. Nothing else. You don't even talk to each other. Just plain humping. And she leaves after that, leaving you basking in orgasmic pleasure.And that, covers about 1/3 of the movie. Not just one sex scene, but plenty in between. Nothing fancy, just straight to the point humping.Things start to get complicated when you try to find out more about the life of this stranger, and the viewer is presented the background, motives and rationale behind the two lead characters.That's it. With one final hump, the movie ends. I suppose it's for the arty-farty folks, but heck, i think 90% of the audience in the sold-out theatre didn't comprehend what the movie is trying to put across.