Rupert Graves, who plays Martyn Fleming, the son of Dr. Stephen Fleming (Jeremy Irons), is only five years younger than Miranda Richardson and fifteen years younger than Irons, who plays both his parents.
It is the first of two collaborations to date (as of June 2015) between French actresses Leslie Caron and Juliette Binoche, who would work together about eight years later on Lasse Hallström's Chocolat (2000).
This British-French co-production was French director Louis Malle's last British and last French film; Malle's final film, Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), was a New York American production made in the United States.
It is the penultimate cinema film directed by French director Louis Malle, followed by Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), which was made and released a few years after Malle's last feature film, Damage (1992).
Three of the film's stars worked with David Cronenberg at various times. Jeremy Irons was in Dead Ringers and M. Butterfly, Juliette Binoche in Cosmopolis, and Miranda Richardson in Spider.
