Going Under

Welsh-born actor Roger Rees bares body and soul in director/cowriter Eric Werthman's handsomely photographed examination of the dynamic that unites a masochist and the sex worker who caters to his desires. Clingy masochist Peter (Rees), a psychotherapist, has been a regular client of German-born dominatrix Suzanne (Geno Lechner) — who is, to say the least, ambivalent about her work — for two and a half years. Suzanne's decision to stop working at the dungeon and return to making art emboldens him to ask if they can see each other on the "outside." She agrees, and after Peter's wife (Kit Flannagan) leaves to spend the summer working on a book in Nova Scotia,...