peter_WMC
Joined Oct 2006
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A good story that unfolds well with a few mild surprises, but nothing very dramatic. Fits together well when all is revealed. Acting and production values are top class. The opening scene is important but its relevance only becomes clear as the story unfolds. An interesting character study of a woman struggling with mixed emotions and loyalty and of her relationship with those with whom she is involved. She does things that seem irrational and watching it we feel we would do things differently, but that doesn't make it not believable. Many of the other characters don't seem to understand her dilemma, while we do. Recommended.
Words fail me at describing how bad this is. Totally unbelievable story: I know it was meant to be. Terrible acting. Poor casting: Daniel Craig with a bad southern U. S. accent, really? Were those sets or CGI? In either case it was a complete waste of resource. Location would have been far far better. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy over the top spoof movies, if they are clever and stylish. This was none of that. Slapstick (non) humour. Agathe Christie style whodunnit all combined to create two hours plus of pure tedium. Confession: I abandoned it after just over an hour in disbelief as to how awful it is. Only movie I have ever given a zero.
Jane Lapotaire give a tour de force performance as an angry lesbian who disrupts everyone around her in her life. But it's not as simple as that with difficult topics such as mixed sexuality, and child abuse issues. Even today, 2022, this material would be considered courageous.
It is billed as a love triangle but that is a gross oversimplification of the complex relationships between all of the characters. The three main characters are a man and two women with a brief appearance of two other women. All five lives are tangled by this strong, feisty, troubled lesbian main character. Add to all of that there are religious and political issues discussed which are just as relevant today as they were in 1975/1976 when it was made and shown. There is also the British class system interfering in their lives. Television drama is rarely as good as this. Acting by everyone, including two children, is superb.
It is billed as a love triangle but that is a gross oversimplification of the complex relationships between all of the characters. The three main characters are a man and two women with a brief appearance of two other women. All five lives are tangled by this strong, feisty, troubled lesbian main character. Add to all of that there are religious and political issues discussed which are just as relevant today as they were in 1975/1976 when it was made and shown. There is also the British class system interfering in their lives. Television drama is rarely as good as this. Acting by everyone, including two children, is superb.