Synopsis
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone else's fantasy, Harry (Lee Ross). When Harry learns that Eva is planning to leave the village in order to live with and look after the injured Lees, he devises a gruesome scheme in order to force her to stay and look after him.
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Cast
- Rupert GravesJoseph Lees
- Samantha MortonEva
- Nicholas WoodesonMr. Dian
- Lee RossHarry
- Felix BillsonRobert
- Vernon DobtcheffItalian Doctor
- Lauren RichardsonJanie
- Margaret JohnAunt Margaret
- Miriam MargolyesSignora Caldoni
- Holly AirdMaria
Recommendations
- 83
Entertainment Weekly
Let loose in a plot that's surprisingly modern about sex and relationships, Morton gives Eva's torn longings an immediacy that transcends a lot of damp, 1950s rusticated preciousness. - 80
Newsweek
An engrossing, superbly acted film that will haunt the viewer's thoughts long after the film is over. - 80
Los Angeles Times
A beautifully articulated and acutely perceptive work with impeccable, carefully shaded performances. - 75
New York Post
Beautifully shot and often moving. - 75
New York Daily News
Most of the movie's rewards are in watching Morton. - 70
L.A. Weekly
A film whose story movingly outfoxes any number of shopworn expectations on its way to a singular, heart-rending outcome. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
(A) languorous, mud-spattered psychological tale. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
Sincere acting lends the film a measure of dramatic dignity.
