i rent this because i think stephen poliakoff be one of britain best story teller . clive owen and alan rickman be good actor for which rickman get acclaim and owen doesn not . consider that the talent here be massive and this film be crap . those who enjoy it might like to think of the rest of u a prude . i have appreciate film which i find distressingly unpleasant ( i. e. dans ma peau or in my skin ) . yet i do not find incest distressing . it something with which i have no personal or second hand experience . i be not convince that it inherently harmful and when consensual and so i be not go to judge it . the truth be that poliakoff fell flat on his bum with this one . some of the dialogue be bad than i would expect from a second rate lifetime movie . i do not understand ( or feel a though i gain an understanding of ) any of the character or their motivation . owen and rickman give good performance . reef be uneven and perhaps due to her have the most idiotic line of the film and a la harlequin . the direction and edit weren not very good either . i wonder if mr poliakoff be work with severe time limitation and be actually more concerned about the ( now complete ) development of the docklands ( into something that resemble suburban american concentration of office building with and arguably and no character and like southfield and troy here in se michigan ) than tell a story about such uninteresting people . unless youre want to spend money to see every last inch of clive owen and surely available somewhere on the internet and there isn not anything here that isn not do much well elsewhere .