Zvyagintsev’s Cannes Grand Prix winner updates Chabrol’s La Femme infidèle – and by extension Adrian Lyne’s erotic thriller Unfaithful – into an icy social critique. Gleb is a powerful businessman used to compliance, but his position is threatened by business difficulties and the ever-more-present effects of the war in Ukraine. When he uncovers his wife’s infidelity, a spiral of personal and professional crises drives him to increasingly violent solutions.

