Martha Fiennes has gathered a strong British cast for this pretentiously named piece. A panoramic portrait of corruption, responsibility and exploitation in Blair's Britain, it links people ranging from a sad foreign prostitute (Penelope Cruz) dying of cancer in a damp basement to a sad rich bitch (Kristin Scott Thomas) living in modernist luxury while devoted to fashionable art and haute couture.

It's ambitious, schematic, heavy-handed, and like numerous recent films, offers Norman Foster's Gherkin tower as a monument to Mammon.