Knight has adapted Anthony Doeer's novel about a blind girl in war stricken St Malo, her nightly radio broadcasts and an evil Nazi who's after a legendary jewel. Put that way it sounds like a young adult fiction or graphic novel but is delivered with grace and nastiness in equal measure.
Photographed by Tobias Schliessler, music James Newton Howard, production design by Simon Elliott.
Aria Maria Loberti , Louis Haffman (sympathetic German), Lars Eidinger (brilliantly nasty - also in Foyle's War: Sunflower, Clouds of Sils Maria), Hugh Laurie (fabulous), Mark Ruffalo (with distracting accent), Marion Bailey.
Most of the Germans are utter brutes so it's a little difficult to watch.
I must say I found Haffman's final run through CGI explosions quite funny, but compare that to the footage at the end of the real aftermath of the St Malo bombing and it isn't so.
You feel for the girl, though, who's left with no one - no aunt, uncle or father, just a promise the German will return.
Loberti has achromatopsia, which means she cannot visualize colour, and - according to 'Women's Health' - 'no vision in some environments, and minimal residual vision in others'.
4 x 1 hr for Netflix.
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