With its inexorable depiction of increasing marital woe, this film is the cinematic equivalent of predestination.

NEWYORKER: The Best Intentions

This predestination through casting allows Ms Holofcener to concentrate on her real interest, which is ethics.

ECONOMIST: Independent films

He first took on the French when he was 40, convinced that this was what he was born to do: Calvinists believe in predestination.

ECONOMIST: David McTaggart | The

This is called a predestination paradox.

NEWYORKER: The Region of Unlikeness