Blown Apart (2008)

BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY director Sharon Maguire tackles more serious fare with this drama featuring Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor, and Matthew McFadyen. Williams (BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN) stars as a young woman living in a fictional, near-future London that is dominated by terrorist attacks. When her husband and son are killed by a bomb exploding in a football stadium, she was with her lover, causing her to pile guilt on top of her grief. However, she gets a chance at redemption when she uncovers a sinister plot to cover up the nature of the attack. INCENDIARY is adapted from the novel by Chris Cleave.

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A woman wrestles with grief, betrayal and redemption in this psychological drama from director Sharon Maguire. One afternoon, a young woman (Michelle Williams) sends her husband and young son off to see a football game, and while they're gone for the afternoon she enjoys a tryst with her lover (Ewan McGregor), an opportunistic reporter. While the woman is making love to another man, she hears a news report that a suicide bomber made their way into the stadium, and that hundreds of people are dead. The woman is horrified to learn that her husband and child were among the victims, and as she struggles to sort out t...
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he pieces of her life, she begins having second thoughts about her illicit relationship while struggling with her feelings about Terrence Butcher (Matthew Macfadyen), a police officer looking into the attack. As the woman tries to come to terms with her grief, she befriends a young boy (Usman Khokhar) whose father happened to be involved in the attacks. Adapted from the acclaimed novel by Chris Cleave, Incendiary received its world premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
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Een vader en zijn zoontje bezoeken samen een voetbalwedstrijd. Het noodlot slaat echter toe: tijdens de wedstrijd ontploft er een bom en beiden zijn op slag dood. De moeder blijft verslagen achter, tenminste zo lijkt het. De vrouw (Michelle Williams) heeft die periode ook nog een affaire met een journalist (Ewan McGregor). Zal zij de periode nu gesterkt doorkomen met een andere minnaar aan haar zijde of maakt dit de tragiek alleen maar groter?

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