The road to ruin

Rating: Null/10 (30 January 2009)

It's a decade since Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet starred as ill-fated lovers aboard the "Titantic". Since then, each has made some fine movies  DiCaprio in the likes of "Gangs Of New York" and "The Aviator" and Winslet in such as "Iris" and "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind". In between, they have remained good friends.
So it's great to see them back together, this time as a young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during 1955 in a film based on a 1961 novel by Richard Yates and directed by Winslet's husband Sam Mendes ("American Beauty" and "Road To Perdition"). Both give excellent performances, with Winslet especially nuanced, in a dark tale of unfulfilled hope and lacerating conflict.