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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Now you’re stalking. Director Roger Michell has an eye for an interesting project. After setting himself up with money-spinner Notting Hill, he pulled off the conceptual thriller Changing Lanes and put granny sex on screen in The Mother. Though his movies never feel entirely successful they always get you thinking. Novel of ideas, Enduring Love, seemed like perfect fodder then. Yet in translation from page to screen, this meditation on love and madness has lost crucial believability. Everybody knows about stalking, so when Daniel Craig pours out his heart to girlfriend Samantha Morton about the nasty man standing outside their window, you’d think she’d give him the time of day. But nope, she just turns over and goes to sleep. You’d want to punch the screen, if stalker Rhys Ifans weren’t such an unthreatening comedy character. Like the film, he starts off silly and stays that way. Enduring Love, on general release 26 November 04.
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