Chromophobia (2005)

The second effort from writer-director Martha Fiennes, Chromophobia (2005) mines the lives of London's bored bourgeois to put together an ensemble piece about life in Tony Blair's Britain. Cold Kristin Scott Thomas is a distant mama to her eight-year-old kiddo, more concerned about shopping, yoga, and of-the-moment art than she is about anyone else. Her hubby (Damian Lewis) is a lawyer dabbling in dubious ethics, and his old friend Ben Chaplain hits the jackpot when Damian drunkenly gives up his secrets and those of his unraveling fam. You see, Ben is an investigative reporter, and his editor wants him to find something salacious for the papers—what better story than the corruption of the bourgeois in all its glory? Ralph Fiennes, Ian Holm, and Rhys Ifans also appear, but it's pole-dancing prostie Penélope Cruz who'll have your London britches falling down (and your Big Ben at attention for this perfect ten!).