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Chris Cooper is a very fine actor whose slightly crumpled face and excellent work onscreen will be familiar to many of you.

He first made an impression in the eighties, as the union organiser in John Sayles Matewan. He also played the sheriff a decade later in another Sayles film, Lone Star.

But you may remember him as the roughneck Creole orchid thief, playing opposite Meryl Streep's lady journalist in the film Adaptation. At one stage, Charlie Kaufman's despairing screenwriter has him wrestle an alligator.

For my money, one of Cooper's finest performances was as the FBI traitor Robert Hanssen in last year's chilling true spy film Breach.

Now Cooper is here again in a very mannered melodrama from Ira Sachs, Married Life.

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