Williams plays a married woman tempted to stray from her fond, familiar husband (Seth Rogen) after a chance encounter with a neighbour (Luke Kirby). Polley’s ideas and images are never subtle (see: pulsating fairground sequences, a wheeling time-lapse shot backed by the titular Leonard Cohen dirge), but that’s part of the charm. Her film is flush with beauty and truth, and is unerringly, unnervingly accurate on love, desire and friendship. RC
The Wedding Video, * * *
15 cert, 94 min
The Calendar Girls team of screenwriter Tim Firth and director Nigel Cole reunite for a broad but frisky romcom: it gets by more on goodwill than inspiration, but it’s lightly amusing and well played. Lucy Punch and Robert Webb are a soon-to-be-wedded couple whose plans for the big day — and encroaching doubts — are documented by the groom’s ne’er-do-well brother (Rufus Hound). Attempts to satirise the hypocrisy of Cheshire society are facile, but Harriet Walter kicks the whole thing up a notch by playing a status-obsessed mumzilla you actually want to hug. TR
The Bird, * *
12A cert, 96 min
A pigeon trapped in a partition wall becomes a none-too-subtle metaphor for emotional stasis in this strenuous French chamber piece. The habitual impassivity of leading lady Sandrine Kiberlain is ploddingly apt in her role as an aloof restaurant worker, while director Yves Caumon takes a striptease approach to explaining her damage. TR
Let the Bullets Fly, *
15 cert, 126 min
This Sichuan-set western was the biggest box-office draw last year in China, where a mass audience readily embraced its overwritten script, ugly visuals, queasy rape humour, feeble special effects and all-round incoherence. RC
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