Stephen Poliakoff directs Saskia Reeves, Clive Owen and Alan Rickman in this erotic drama where a brother and sister start an ill advised affair with each other.

Feels very par for the course for this pre Four Weddings / Trainspotting era of British cinema. Funded by telly, dreary and with just enough forbidden nudity to keep you watching. If you can get past the criminal kink then this has some strong sex scenes. Everyone’s performances are a little too oblique but they look nice. Has its moments beyond the taboo bonking.

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Perfect Double Bill: The Cement Garden (1993)

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