![]() It’s a BBC-backed, UK-set mix of Barry Lyndon, The Talented Mr Ripley, Four Weddings and a Funeral and the Crimes side of Crimes and Misdemeanours – though I suspect Allen’s specific model was A Place in the Sun/An American Tragedy.Ĭhris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a well-spoken tennis player who missed the big time, takes work as a coach at an exclusive London coach the character is supposed to be Irish (like Barry Lyndon), but Meyers aptly lets only a hint of accent slip through in extremis (despite everything, this is a well-acted film). Even those didn’t provoke the tirades of unintentional laughter which rose from a British audience at the preview I caught. ![]() A return to form for Woody Allen, if ‘form’ means the deep-frozen pompous soap he made circa September and Another Woman. ![]()
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