Come Undone

Soldini brings us vivid characters, and gets all the details right, from the humdrum rhythms of marriage to the unglamorous milieu of working-class Milan.

Come Undone collapses the faade of emotional connection by highlighting the small erosive moments of deception rather than grandiose melodramatic tirades.

If the movie tells an old story, its unvarnished realism lends it poignancy and depth.

The outcome is of little surprise, but to Soldini's credit, the predictability is no hindrance to enjoying "Come Undone."

Come Undone ends with less than a proper gut-punch of cumulative effect, but this self-consciously modern movie contains classical pleasures.

Mild but absorbing drama about infidelity, passion and deception among some everyday middle-class types in Milan is short on insight but benefits from involving characters, an enveloping urban milieu and inevitable consequences.

A sensitive anatomy of a sexual affair by Silvio Soldini, one of Italy's most gifted directors.