Women are from Venus, men are from, erm, the sewer. It’s hard to tell whether Michael Winner was mocking the material in Dirty Weekend or if he truly believed he had something important to convey. And what about Helen Zahavi, who wrote the novel and adapted it for the screen? What prompted her—her intentions, and so on? It's possible that Helen and Michael, at their best, were a perfect pairing for film, but the m…