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It's telling as the film opens, <PERSON> as <PERSON> a film director, is shooting what seems like a simple scene but his obsessive control over every aspect of it foreshadows his own life - he needs to control that too and have everything his own way. A sexual and emotional gourmand, he moves from his husband, played with mournful exasperation by <PERSON> and <PERSON>, a young woman on his film set, a glowing <PERSON>. There isn't a lot of struggle in his appetite and he believes he can have it all - his petulant behaviour at a deeply uncomfortable brunch when he is questioned by <PERSON>'s mother bears this out. <PERSON> confidently articulates the imperfections of love (as well as the searing fervour of sex) and how one-sided it can be, leaving no-one happy in the end. 295