During the overnight journey of the ocean liner Pride of Le Havre from Le Havre to Portsmouth two strangers, Thomas and Alice, will strike up a conversation, a relationship of sorts, a “brief encounter” during which the 16-year-old French schoolboy will lose his virginity to the young though far more sophisticated English woman. This is […]
Daily Archives: April 27, 2010
Working-class lives populate a South London housing complex in writer-director Mike Leigh’s delicately judged, cumulatively massively moving All or Nothing. Much of the focus is on a particular family, the Bassetts: Penny, who works as a supermarket checkout clerk and whose heart, over time, has drifted away from her spouse, whom she sees as less […]
