Let's clear up the two Oliver Parkers. 'Ol' wrote and directed this, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Now Is Good, the Mama Mia sequel. 'Oliver' is responsible for An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest (adapted both of these too), St Trinians, Swimming With Men, Dad's Army. Confusingly, both have worked for Ealing.
Q thought this was too much of a stretch. A woman (Piper Perabo) spies another woman on her wedding day (Lena Headey) and falls for her, eventually leaving her new husband Matthew Goode. There's no indication that the bride has any previous gay leanings. I don't know whether that's plausible or not, but works OK for me as a romcom device, of which this sort of is. With Darren Boyd, Celia Imrie, Anthony Head, Sue Johnston and Boo Jackson who - sixteen years later - is in pre-production on her second film, Faded Roses.
Photographed by Ben Davis. I quite enjoyed it.
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