Rent The Kreutzer Sonata (2008)
3.0 of 5 from 62 ratings
1h 36min
A really gripping update to California by UK Director Bernard Rose of the Leo Tolstoy novel about obsessive sexual jealousy. The film is perhaps 5 minutes over-long, but the two central performances from Danny Huston and Elizabeth Rohm carry it. Huston, especially, is brilliant at suggesting seething dark thoughts below his urbane middle class surface manner.
The tension is steadily built Hitchcock-like and the satire on the way of modern sleazy/smart Los Angeles is wry. A terrific cameo performance, by Matthew Jacobs playing a really annoying chauffeur, forshadows the same director's equally fine Boxing Day, also based on Tolstoy. This is great British film-making.