Propriety and passion are at loggerheads in this period melodrama, which traps one man between two very different sisters. The tangle begins at the funeral of Arthur Burkett, whose daughters — married Madeleine (Olivia Williams) and unmarried Dinah (Helena Bonham Carter) — bear their grief in conspicuously disparate ways that speak volumes about their personalities. Beautiful, icy, socially connected Madeleine is the very image of controlled propriety, while the impulsive Dinah comes perilously close to making an unseemly spectacle of herself, stayed only by the firm hand of her mother (Eleanor Bron). Dinah comes to stay with Madeleine and her husband, Rick...
Released:
2002
Rated:
R
Length:
96 mins