The read
It runs a compact 1h 19m.
Synopsis
Margaret is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl. Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire. She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother, who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.
Ratings
IMDb6.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes71%
9 audience votes
Key crew
- Waris HusseinDirector
- Martin ShermanWriter
- Stanley MyersOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Jeanne MoreauLili
- Joan PlowrightMrs. Monro
- Julie WaltersMonica
- Lena HeadeyMargaret
- David ThrelfallSyl
- Maggie SteedMrs Raffald
- John WoodRobert
- Gwyneth StrongCynthia
- Roger Lloyd PackDerek
- Catherine SchellMarie-Claire
- Tommy DugganFather O'Flynn
- Britta SmithMother Joseph
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Themes
infidelityegyptlondon, englandnungallery ownermarriage of convenienceart gallerynovicewomen's issuesnunhoodloveless marriagemarriage broker