
Ensemble drama starring Damian Lewis, Ralph Fiennes, Penélope Cruz and Kristin Scott Thomas. Marcus Aylesbury (Lewis) has his fair share of dilemmas and secrets in his family. His wife (Scott Thomas) can't tell the difference between a shrink and a shop, his eight-year-old son Orlando (Clem Tibber) spray paints his rabbit's name on the walls to get attention, while Orlando's godfather Stephen (Fiennes) lies half beaten to death in hospital. To make things worse Marcus' boss ... (Full plot summary below)
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Ensemble drama starring Damian Lewis, Ralph Fiennes, Penélope Cruz and Kristin Scott Thomas. Marcus Aylesbury (Lewis) has his fair share of dilemmas and secrets in his family. His wife (Scott Thomas) can't tell the difference between a shrink and a shop, his eight-year-old son Orlando (Clem Tibber) spray paints his rabbit's name on the walls to get attention, while Orlando's godfather Stephen (Fiennes) lies half beaten to death in hospital. To make things worse Marcus' boss is drawing him into a scam which could cost him his career, his father (Ian Holm) has an illegitimate love child with his former mistress Gloria (Cruz), and his stepmother Penelope's (Harriet Walter) bond with her dogs is his best role model of a loving relationship.
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| Shadows on the WallRich ClineDigs into modern life in some very interesting ways, even though it's not always easy to see the point of it all. |
| BBC.comAnna SmithA lengthy ensemble piece that's emotionally distant but rarely dull. |
| Film4James MottramNot quite the British Magnolia it wants to be, Chromophobia's melting pot plot is too often little more than overheated melodrama. But aided by Damian Lewis's strong turn, it still manages some unexpectedly poignant moments. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim RobeyIt's hard to get past an almost sadistic aloofness in the storytelling, and several of Fiennes's flapping plot strands wither on the vine. |
| Total FilmNeil SmithGiven the implausible contrivances that link these disparate protagonists, though, it's hard to care much about any of them in a chilly drama whose sleek aesthetic masks a hollow soul. |
| Sky CinemaTim EvansChromophobia, incidentally, is an irrational fear of colour. Someting we could have done with a bit more of. |
| Empire MagazineWilliam ThomasKristin Scott Thomas is marvellous but director Martha Fiennes fails to tie together all the remaining plot strands convincingly. |
| ViewLondonMatthew TurnerThe performances are fine but the multiple story strands never really add up to much and the film fails to engage on an emotional level. |
| Time OutTrevor JohnstonQuite how this segues into a grand finale defining bathos to the strains of Beethoven almost beggars description, but failed seriousness to this degree of screaming awfulness is choice indeed - unfortunately, for all the wrong reasons. |
| User ReviewKristína Guzasny film ktory naplno zobrazuje nase sucasnu spolocnost a vztahy ktore su medzi nami, nadherne zpracovany |