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	Lawless Heart
	Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger Bill Nighy, Douglas Henshall, Tom Hollander, Clémentine Célarié, Stuart Laing, Josephine Butler, Ellie Haddington, Sukie Smith, Dominic Hall, David Coffey 2001		To create the big picture for their small, insightful movie "Lawless Heart," co-directors Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger show various characters' different views of the same circumstances. Novelist Lawrence Durrell used the same approach when he wrote "The Alexandria Quartet," and director Akira Kurosawa offered alternate accounts of a single act of violence in his samurai film "Rashomon." "Lawless Heart" is not so grandiose a work, but it has emotional depths that are revealed in a trio of vignettes like a slowly unfolding triptych. Three disparate men (Bill Nighy, Douglas Henshall, Tom Hollander) connect in a small English seaside town for the funeral of a fourth — Stuart, who died in a drowning accident. Each of the mourners is highlighted in segments that show how Stuart's death — and various local women — impact their lives. Stuart's brother-in-law (Nighy) is tempted to stray from his marriage by a vivacious French gal (Clémentine Célarié); Stuart's gay lover (Hollander) seeks solace from a pixyish waitress (Sukie Smith) and Stuart's sister (Ellie Haddington); and Stuart's childhood pal (Henshall) is drawn to an unassuming shop clerk (Josephine Butler).