NICK (Jim Broadbent) and Meg (Lindsay Duncan) choose to celebrate 30 years of marriage by revisiting old haunts in Paris. Strolls are accompanied by occasional bickering and one evening, the couple crosses paths with Nick’s university pal Morgan (Jeff Goldblum). He invites Nick and Meg to a dinner party, where simmering tensions finally boil over.
The French capital looks glorious and provides a suitably swoonsome backdrop to screenwriter Hanif Kureishi’s verbal grenades that explode with devastating impact. Kureishi rubs salt into every open wound, while director Roger Michell elicits powerful performances from his leads as they dance awkwardly around the possibility they might be happier apart.
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