Hairy bottom, control freak or nose picker?

Leaving, the new Kristin Scott-Thomas film, is a dark, heartstopping drama about a rich French housewife who falls in love with her Spanish builder. Her husband, whose passion for her expresses itself as icy control, is a fearsome yet pitiful figure somewhat like Karenin. There is sex - without Hollywood bodystockings and with hairy bottoms, grief, rage and some very convincing domestic violence. Watching these characters play out this gripping drama, I glanced at the man next to me, who at the height of the action was calmly picking his nose. And English men wonder why their wives romanticise the appeal of Europeans.