Rupert Everett wears an unidentified watch

The Comfort of Strangers gives Colin little to do but be looked at, and the watch on his wrist is part of what the film keeps studying: a young Englishman on holiday in Venice, beautiful and passive, drawn with his lover into the orbit of a sinister local couple. Rupert Everett plays Colin in Paul Schrader's 1990 adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel, scripted by Harold Pinter, a slow, dread-soaked study of desire and control.

Colin and Mary, played by Natasha Richardson, drift through the city half-lost, and a stranger named Robert keeps appearing to steer them somewhere they should not go. The film is about watching and being watched, the tourist as prey, and Everett's Colin is its lovely, doomed object.

No frame in this sighting's record clears the watch on his wrist, and no source names it, so the brand stays unidentified. It is a holiday watch on a man being slowly chosen, in a film where the most ordinary things, a watch, a photograph, an open doorway, are all part of a trap closing without a sound.