Directed by David Siegel and Scott McGehee • 2001 • United States
Starring Tilda Swinton, Goran Visnjic, Jonathan Tucker

Tilda Swinton delivers a tour-de-force performance as a mother driven to extremes in this stylish and psychologically rich reworking of Max Ophuls’s 1949 noir THE RECKLESS MOMENT. She stars as Margaret Hall, a lonely Lake Tahoe housewife whose naval-officer husband spends months at sea on an aircraft carrier. In his absence, Margaret does her best to do right by her family, no matter what. So when her eldest son’s lover washes up on the beach in front of their house, she does the only thing an unflinchingly devoted mother could: she hides the body to protect her son. What begins as a riveting cat-and-mouse game soon turns into a haunting love story with self-sacrifice at its center.