this film use all art house clichés ( slow pace and long static shot and minimal amount of dialog ) to try to hide the fact that there really be nothing worth watch here represent there be no plot to speak of and the character be dreary ( female lead ) or cliché ( tersteeghe character ) and and they do not ever talk to each other about anything that concern their rather uneventful life . the film be center around a woman who find out about her husband adultery . instead of confront him and she half heartedly take revenge by commit adultery herself . after a fight and a reconciliation with her sister who know about the adultery without tell her she ask her husband to stop cheating on her . they seem to be re united a a family . two other story line the plan move of the woman elderly father with his young wife to guernsey and the rivalry with the woman sister do not offer any interesting development . the suicide of a colleague of the woman that seem to set off event in the film be not a subject in itself . for 2005 or any other year for that matter this be not enough to make an interesting film . moreover and what little possibility for dramatic development there be in the script be not use or be consciously avoided and a when both the woman and her sister mark a particular piece of furniture from their father house which be go to be sell because of his plan move . both sister want this particular piece and give their rivalry in the past over much more important thing than furniture represent men this could in theory lead to a confrontation . or the matter could be resolve by one sister give way to the other . either way and this would not be a very interesting or original development of the story but at least it would constitute some development . the film clearly set this situation up ( with both sister look intently at each other during the marking and one sister have mention she do not want to draw straw ) but it cheat u out of any resolution represent the scene simply end and how this in itself rather dreary and materialistic issue be solve and be not show . although almost completely absent and the dialog that be in the film be excruciatingly flat and tepid . for example and when during a visit to guernsey and the 2 sister address their rivalry it be in a three line dialog that have a childish yes it be no it isn not ring to it . the fight and reconciliation scene with the 2 sister be completely without dialog give a highly artificial and overly stylise and unrealistic impression and considerably reduce it impact . the way the woman finally finally . address her husband adultery in a single line of dialog have to be see to be believe and be at the same time completely unbelievable . the husband do not seem to have any noticeable reaction or if he have any and it be not show . the woman do not mention her own adultery to her husband . the scene show the woman and husband and their young son asleep on an airliner and watch by the sister be possibly mean a a happy end and but the way the character address the issue of their life in what go before make this unlikely . because of it slow pace and uninteresting story and leaden direction and absurd lack of dialog and i find this film an example of everything that can be wrong with an art house movie and a complete waste of time .