Just feel and breathe in the texture of this film. A quiet, under wrought, balanced but scalpel sharp study of English middle class life in early 1970s London revealing with precision, layer-upon-layer of the lives we lived (or rather live, given the themes of one’s place in society, loneliness, (non) conformity and just plain good manners in the face of emotional turmoil are always with us).
Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch turn in stunningly nuanced performances as two points in an emotional tri-corn with Murray Head as the third and shared point – have it all, yet have not very much.
