The Kreutzer Sonata

I had a pretty quiet morning today, but in the afternoon I headed out to the city centre and bought the season one DVD box-set of Torchwood in the sales.

After waiting about half an hour for a bus, I went on up to the Cineworld cinema to meet my friend Malcolm, where we went to a Film Festival screening of the film The Kreutzer Sonata, directed by Bernard Rose and based on a novel by Leo Tolstoy, which was itself inspired by a Beethoven sonata (the Violin Sonata in A Major for piano and violin, Op. 47). In present day Los Angeles, wealthy Edgar (played by Danny Huston) marries a young pianist (Elisabeth Rohm) after an intense affair, however, as she is rehearsing a benefit performance of "The Kreutzer Sonata" with a young violinist (Matthew Yang King), Edgar becomes convinced she is having an affair and becomes consumed with obsessive jealousy. The film is shot on digital video with a non-linear structure. It was a good film but very, very dark and very explicit. It is a film that may possibly put you off having sex for the rest of your life!

It's the last day of the Film Festival today and the film was screening as part of the "Best of the Fest" day where they show the most popular films for the Festival. After the film Malcolm and I had a quick drink in the bar before going our seperate ways.