Soldini brings us vivid characters, and gets all the details right, from the humdrum rhythms of marriage to the unglamorous milieu of working-class Milan.

Come Undone collapses the faade of emotional connection by highlighting the small erosive moments of deception rather than grandiose melodramatic tirades.

If the movie tells an old story, its unvarnished realism lends it poignancy and depth.

Mild but absorbing drama about infidelity, passion and deception among some everyday middle-class types in Milan is short on insight but benefits from involving characters, an enveloping urban milieu and inevitable consequences.