I watched the whole boring thing just to see what happened to Sophy, the only bearable one. I guess we're supposed to like these people because they have posh accents and lots of money, but they were all just insufferable. One woman sneers at her war damaged husband for having lost a leg, Polly uses and discards men, "Like a sailor at a brothel" and Oliver is unfailingly crude without wit.
The worst part is our main character Calypso, played by Jennifer Ehle with her small, smug mouth pursed like a disapproving schoolmarm and the loudest, harshest voice in acting. The director has tried to make Ehle and her sexy with lots of nude scenes but I'm not sure it helps much.
Throw in a pedophile who we're supposed to find charming and the whole thing is just ugly and humorless.
I once read that when the American soldiers returned from the war they said the English girls were the easiest in all of Europe and I suppose it might be true, if sad,
The worst part is our main character Calypso, played by Jennifer Ehle with her small, smug mouth pursed like a disapproving schoolmarm and the loudest, harshest voice in acting. The director has tried to make Ehle and her sexy with lots of nude scenes but I'm not sure it helps much.
Throw in a pedophile who we're supposed to find charming and the whole thing is just ugly and humorless.
I once read that when the American soldiers returned from the war they said the English girls were the easiest in all of Europe and I suppose it might be true, if sad,