Ten years after Ivansxtc, director Bernard Rose and star Danny Huston are reunited in another digitally-shot Tolstoy-based thriller set in the dark underside of privileged Los Angeles society. Huston is Edgar, a wealthy philanthropist married to beautiful pianist Abby (Elizabeth Rohm). They appear to have it all: family, a luxurious mansion, and a passionate, intense relationship. This perfect world is threatened when Abby begins work on Beethoven's titular sonata with a young violinist, and Edgar becomes scarily possessive, his irrational jealousy kicking into overdrive. This mature study of sex, obsession and paranoia is emotionally frank and bracingly intimate, with strong shades of classic film noir in amongst the very modern, hand held film techniques.

4/5 Bold, brilliant and exhilarating: an intimately horrible, sexually explicit and black-comic portrait of a toxic marriage... A superbly creative adaptation... Guardian