In one of the more felicitous match-ups of filmmaker and source material, restrained English director Roger Michell adapts icily intelligent British novelist Ian McEwan's creepy 1999 bestseller into a cerebral thriller that dares to ask a fundamental question: What, exactly, is love? Celebrated science writer and die-hard Darwinist Joe Rose (Daniel Craig) believes it's nothing more than an biological expedient that ensures we as a species continue to procreate; whatever greater meaning we choose to attach to
l'amour may make for great art, but it's ultimately irrelevant. Or so this super-rationalist thinks until a freak accident in the English countryside forc...
Released:
2004
Rated:
R
Length:
100 mins