AFTERMATHS.(Movie Review)

The opening scene of Ian McEwan's "Enduring Love" has, since the novel was published, in 1998, achieved an enduring fame of its own. This may be the case, too, with the film of the book, which was adapted by Joe Penhall and directed by Roger Michell. We start with a heat-heavy English summer, and with Joe (Daniel Craig) and his girlfriend, Claire (Samantha Morton), sitting in a field; he starts to open a bottle of champagne, and only a viewer of nervous disposition would point out the slight but sickening tilt at which the meadow's greenness is filmed, as if to hint that this idyll is about to go downhill. Behind the lovers drifts a sudden, enormous sun. In fact, it is a ...