Problems: Firth's character's inertia. Would 'friendship' really prevent him from getting off with the delicious Gusta Gerritsen? What was the nature of his relationship with James Wilby? What's he thinking?
And Baines Lyndon. Timothy Spall.. Off-puttingly offensive at every turn. (OK there are people like this with no self-reflection but as a character...)*
Bill Patterson losing boys in Red Light District has a flavour of Les Quatre Cents Coups. Loved the hockey match where they're all chatting about the impending disco.
Good fun.
* Shortly after this we met William Boyd and he said that the film is very much what really happened on his school trip to Amsterdam in 1969 (including the dismal failures in hockey matches), and that the character really was that bad!
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