Heavily politicized Gothic romance about an undercover Jew in the employ of upper-crust Scots. The intrepid heroine breaches the inner sanctum of the lord of the castle, shows him the undiscovered way to preserve his pioneering photographs, and even gets a one-century jump on Playgirl magazine with a full-frontal pin-up of the chap. A handsome film, in handsome surroundings on the Isle of Skye, but obvious and overstated in its dramatic agenda. And slow, very, very slow. And the piano-wire personality of Minnie Driver is a constant strain. With Tom Wilkinson and Harriet Walter; written and directed by Sandra Goldbacher. (1998) — Duncan Shepherd
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