Wednesday 4 June 2014

Eye of the Needle

Rating:
80%
Format:
DVD
Year:
1981
Predominant Genre:
Romance
Premiss:
Sex-starved air-force hero wife loves German spy on Scottish isle during World War II.
Themes:
Sexual love | Political Correctness
Similar Titles:
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Best Performance:
Kate NELLIGAN…

Lady Nelligan’s Lover

Essentially an adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover in a wartime setting, this gives the ever-excellent Kate NELLIGAN a perfect opportunity to show how good she is in an unusual love story.

Despite being carefully-crafted and enjoyable to watch, the basic problem here is that NELLIGAN and her co-star lack the necessary chemistry to make this the real, full-throttle tearjerker that it is only partially successful in being.

Nevertheless, this is not at all bad for all that and makes a refreshing change from the usual, formulaic war-movie fare one has become resigned to.

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