Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.