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Faithfully Yours blends sex and twists like classic thrillers, but its ending subverts gender roles. Critics praised the challenging gender norms, but some viewers found the movie's ending unsatisfying. The movie's dark twists showcase how lying destroys relationships, leading to an ultimately pessimistic view on marriage.

The Netflix thriller Faithfully Yours has all the twists and turns of the best suspense movies. Released in 2022 and directed by Andr van Duren, Faithfully Yours follows friends Isabel and Bodil as they embark on one of their supposed "girl's trips," which is a cover for their mutual marital infidelity. However, things begin to go awry when Isabel is seemingly killed, and Bodil is trapped in a web of her lies. Blending the sex and twists of the classic thrillers of the past, Faithfully Yours isn't necessarily the most inventive film, but it isn't without its deeper meaning.

Critic reviews were relatively mixed when it came to Faithfully Yours.

Judge Bodil Backer (Bracha van Doesburgh) seemingly has it all: she’s a no-nonsense Judge and has a great home life with her doctor husband Milan (Nasrdin Dchar) and pre-teen son Ben (Damiano Incani).

At the start of director André van Duren’s Erotic Thriller, Bo is preparing for a girls weekend away with her best friend Isabel (Elise Schaap). They leave their husbands behind in Amsterdam, board a train for Bo’s family beach house in Belgium and outline plans for their weekend, which includes a burner phone, a large sum of money, and an expensive suite at a high-end hotel for Isabel.

Faithfully Yours has a fantastic central premise: a few times a year the two women use each other as cover while they cheat on their husbands. One woman will attend a lecture or visit a museum and snap photos to send to the husbands as an alibi.

Philippe Le Guay’s “The Man in the Basement” scooped the top prize at the U.K. Jewish Film Festival on Sunday evening.

The 2021 film, which stars François Cluzet, Jérémie Renier and Bérénice Bejo, was awarded the prize for best film.

Runner-up “Karaoke,” from director Moshe Rosenthal, which had opened the festival earlier this month, was given a special mention.

The best film winner was selected by a jury comprised of “Made of Honor” director Paul Weiland, Kefi Chadwick, Liraz Chamami, producer Dominique Green, Sharon Levi and Michael Samuels.

“The jury was impressed by this tense thriller, with its strong performances and direction, and bristling with symbolism that intelligently explores France’s hidden history and contemporary issues around antisemitism,” they said in a statement. “‘The Man in the Basement’ confronts Jewish identity, Holocaust denial and attitudes to France’s Jewish minority, but yet the film still works effectively as compelling and suspenseful storytelling.

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Sheridan Smith will star in new ITV drama Black Work.

The Cilla actress will play Jo Gillespie in the "riveting thriller" from writer Matt Charman.

The three-part story follows Smith's character as she sets out to discover who murdered her husband Ryan, an undercover policeman who was shot dead in mysterious circumstances.

Jo, who also works as a police officer, must face the difficult truth about her marriage as she continues with her investigation. She is wracked with guilt following her attachment to one of Ryan's colleagues.

The drama will also explore Jo's strained relationships with her daughter and stepson in the wake of Ryan's death.

Charman said: "Sheridan Smith is a dream to write for because as an actress there's really nothing she can't do.

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He played Richie Beckett, a Brighton crime boss with fast-moving dementia. He went from administrative incompetence to hopeless incontinence in about as much time as it would have taken him to pull his trousers down.

Even for an actress of Sophie Okonedo's talent, playing Mrs Mandela was a huge challenge. Here, the reluctant star talks about wearing fat suits, avoiding red carpets, and the trip to Darfur which changed her life

There's a clutch of scenes near the middle of the forthcoming TV film Mrs Mandela where you can hardly keep watching, so grimly intense is the mutual onscreen hatred. Infamous Afrikaans police interrogator Theunis Swanepoel is played, with terrifying greasy-haired intensity, by David Morrissey, who even wields those loveless gutturals of the Sith Efrican accent like a stick. Winnie Mandela is played, grovelling on the floor, by turns terrified and defiant, her psyche altering by the minute, by Sophie Okonedo: and I am asking her how they even met each other's eyes afterwards, once "Cut!" was called: both must have been slumped, torn, empty, choked.

"Those scenes are certainly intense, desperately so.