Nice to look at, but boring, chick flick

Rating: 6/10 (20 December 2015)

Nicely directed and photographed chick-flick with wooden performances and tame sex scenes. Reminds me of rubbish like the Emmanuelle films in the seventies. Jamie Dornan reminded me of George Lazenby.
I really didn't detect any chemistry between the main actors and, if she needed persuading to be submissive, why did he bother with all that effort to convince her? I'm not convinced, either.
Overall it's not convincing. They are obviously a miss-matched couple who have nothing in common so I'm not sure why they persist in constructing a relationship against all odds. It's a shame it took Ana the whole film to figure out what the rest of us knew all along.
I had no desire to watch this, but it was there as a freebie on Sky Movies. It has to be the most unerotic erotic film I've ever seen. And what on earth is a classy Brit like Jennifer Ehle doing in this?