[1] It stars an ensemble cast including Sophia Loren, Mira Sorvino, Deborah Kara Unger, Pete Postlethwaite, Klaus Maria Brandauer, and Malcolm McDowell.

Her father Alexander, also a well-known photojournalist, is proud of Natalia when her photo appears on the cover of a news magazine, but she is haunted by the fact that while she made the child famous, she couldn't save her life.

When Alan is released from prison, she's willing to abandon her husband, children and career as a musician to track him down and kill him, unable to accept that he's a changed man.

[2] Liam Lacey of The Globe and Mail wrote, "Between Strangers has a few things going for it: Loren's wonderful face, for example, which suggests a wild natural landscape rather than mere flesh and bone, and makes an intriguing contrast with Unger's symmetrical features and turned-to-stone stare.

By the time each woman confronts the middle-aged man who has exerted tyranny over her life, you are weary of this suffocating Euro-angst.