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"An American businessman living in Athens who is guided by a deeply felt need to interpret the smallest details of the world as significant, finds that he is pulled into a complex love affair."@en
"Following up on his critically successful debut, Sunday (1997), which won top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival, Jonathan Nossiter directs this romantic drama about a man obsessed with coincidence, serendipity, and the preternatural. Alec Skarsgard (Stellan Skarsgard) is a Stockholm-born American who lives in Athens and works as a commodities trader. He takes great pride in his ability to perceive patterns and trends in the daily undulations of the market and thereby turn a huge profit. In his private life, he also obsesses over random incidents and occurrences, looking for a deeper meaning in the chaos of everyday life. Though he loves his longtime wife Marjorie (Charlotte Rampling) and their two teenaged children, he finds that he cannot resist the seductive wiles of his co-worker Katherine (Deborah Kara Unger). He soon breaks the illicit affair off in an effort to save the marriage. Yet when he accidentally bumps into Katherine on a family ski trip, believing it fateful coincidence, he leaves with his co-worker and files for divorce. Later, Katherine reveals that she concocted their fortuitous meeting. Aghast, Alec promptly spurns her and returns to his soon-to-be ex-wife. Since she has already taken up with Greek intellectual Andreas (Dimitris Katalifos), Marjorie is less than enthusiastic about reconciling. Meanwhile, Katherine follows Alec and informs him that she is pregnant. This film was screened at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival."
"A man pre-occupied with signs and symbols leaves his family and moves to America with his lover but returns home for one final attempt to win them back."
"Alec Fenton, marié à une Américaine d'origine grecque, a une liaison avec une de ses collègues. Sous l'influence des signes et de prémonitions, il finit parl a suivre aux Etats-Unis, laissant derrière lui sa femme et ses enfants. Mais les mêmes démons le poussent à reconstruire son couple. Il revient en Grèce, et trouve sous son toit Andréas, un journaliste engagé..."