I'm the only one here who doesn't have a past, observes the student helper of her co-workers on the dining-hall staff at a resort hotel on the Welsh coast. But by the end of summer -- the summer of '62 -- she has gotten a good start on one. The characters, with their period quaintnesses, are all quite vivid -- someone might almost say overstated -- and the relationships between them, especially in their after-hours and off-hours sessions together, are well drawn. The details of the job itself, on the other hand, are sketchy at best, and even allowing that the focus is on the hired help, the guests at the hotel are criminally neglected. On the evidence, the movie could, and probably should, have been a bit sharper, a bit nastier, in tone. It is so good-natured as to be denaturing. With Elizabeth Edmonds; written by June Roberts; directed by Peter Duffell. (1983) — Duncan Shepherd
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