Little of it makes sense or is related to other parts of the movie. Each ‘segment’ is told with a different cinematic language and the dialogue that makes most of it up is heavy with incomprehensible subtext much of the time.

Forget everything you know about lives colliding from Hollywood thrillers. There are no plane crashes, hit-and-runs or heart transplants. We leave each star-crossed couple and move on to the next at holiday resort theatre performance and minor traffic infringements with all the subtlety of chaos theory.

I was a little nervous but then when we started I realised what a pearl she was. She’s really good so it encouraged me to say ‘okay, let’s make this whole thing really good’. As soon as the camera rolled Julia Roberts disappeared and we just started getting a team together. It was fun.