I am a big fan of the Ian McEwen novella and even though I am a great admirer of the three leads, I felt they were all miscast. In the book, Robert is charming and likable but with Walden, there's a sense right away that this guy is "off". And Harold Pinter is a brilliant playwright & has written some very good films, but this is not one of them. And Paul Schrader is an amazing filmmaker (I'm a huge fan of his Patty Hearst movie and his recent First Reformed w/ Ethan Hawke) but everything feels heavy handed and by rote so that when the reveal comes, it's like "Yeah, okay" as opposed to the true page turner the book was.
Review of The Comfort of Strangers
