A situation reminiscent of Jack Clayton's Our Mother's House (1967): a family of sudden orphans buries their Mum on the premises and keeps her death a secret. Writer-director Andrew Birkin, working from a novel by Ian McEwan, takes an hour to get to where Clayton got in a few minutes; and the time spent instead to establish the elder children's sex drives erodes the source of the earlier film's poignance: the children's attempt to preserve the unpreservable, their childhood. Birkin's children, two of them at any rate, have already lost it. The whole point of the story is now the incest between real-life kissing cousins (Charlotte Gainsbourg, daughter of Andrew's sister Jane, and Ned Birkin, the writer-director's son). And making this the whole point is making too much of it. It's a long slow road to get there, and the road ends immediately after. (1994) — Duncan Shepherd
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