Roger Ashton-Griffiths

The English ‘gangster’ film genre is one that has thrived in the past 20 years despite, although mostly at the lower budget end of the British film industry.

Based on a true story, this lyrical romance set in 1913 Cornwall is also a drudgefest that never comes alive.

Woody Allen presents another of his typical roundelays of well-to-do characters experiencing troubled love lives and thwarted desires, back in sunny and picturesque London again.