Seven Years

A middle-aged man seemingly having everything, who is caught into a dilemma: one side is the beautiful, elegant but indifferent wife, the other side is the mediocre, passive but true lover; one side is the marriage strongly trying to save but close to collapse, the other side is the extramarital affair trying to get rid of but full of seductiveness.

Seven-year itch encounters career downturn, only involuntariness left after struggling.

This is not a beautiful story about the wonderful but fragile love, the invisible torrent of marvelous marriage, the dilemma and choice of life.

Peter Stam builds this story about desire and responsibility using an exceptionally calm and restrained language and atmosphere, like Camus's Outsider that is ruthless but stays calm and collected.