Set right after World War II, a naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool and falls in love with its narcissistic director.
A major tragedy unfolds amidst a wonderfully chosen cast, but somehow the gloomy story doesn't manage to grip.
Halliwell*: "Good on atmospherics and the detail of backstage bitchery and theatrical ambition, but flawed in its wider ambitions of a girl growing to maturity in circumstances of betrayal, this is a broken-backed melodrama: the first half belongs to Grant's ambiguous director, the second to Rickman's reckless leading man, but the innocent girl at its centre is not a strong enough character to hold it together as a satisfying whole."
Maltin**1/2: "Unfocused but rarely boring drama...The photography - more stylized bleakness from NAKED's Dick Pope - is a plus."
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