Suspension of Disbelief

Martin (Sebastian Koch) is an acclaimed screenwriter, Martin, who becomes entangled in a police investigation when his daughter’s friend, the enigmatic Angelique (Lotte Verbeek), disappears after a party at his home in Hampstead. When Angelique turns up dead suspicions fall on Martin, whose wife vanished under similar circumstances ten years previously. Angelique’s twin sister, Therese, makes an appearance to identify the body revealing clues and slowly seducing those around her. Three different strands unfold, a conventional dramatic story, a film noir within the film, and a classroom discussion dissecting the screenwriting process all woven together by unreliable narrator Martin... British director Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas, Timecode) plays with fact and fiction in this experimental erotic thriller and murder mystery.