Sunday

A promising feature-fiction debut by Jonathan Nossiter, whose only previous credit is the Quentin Crisp documentary RESIDENT ALIEN. David Suchet (Mystery!'s Hercule Poirot) gives an amazingly controlled performance as onetime IBM tax accountant Oliver, who, thanks to corporate downsizing, is homeless and living in a run-down Queens, NY, men's shelter. One frozen Sunday morning, Oliver is approached on the street by Madeleine (Lisa Harrow), a slightly unbalanced, out-of-work British actress who mistakes him for filmmaker Matthew Delacorta. Madeleine, angling for a part and a way out of the purgatory that is Queens, invites Oliver home and seduces him; Oliver,...