Allegory of Love. Story: David Pirie; screenplay Steven Churchett.
A woman is murdered with an ornate Islamic mirror and then other literary-referenced killings occur. Art Malik and James Fox are in it. A disturbed young man who is too into his sword and sorcery games is involved.
The Quality of Mercy. Students enacting The Merchant of Venice when one is killed. Daisy Lewis is the strong willed director, Bryan Dick the drop-out. Written with the familiar pawky qualities of Alan Plater, e.g. "Tell us about Edinburgh." "It's a city in Scotland." or "I must get back to Venice." "Have a lovely time."
The killer of Lewis's wife is revealed, causing friction between our dynamic duo - both thinks the other is reserved and hidden.
The Point of Vanishing isn't just about the 'vanishing point' depicted in Paolo Uccelli's 'The Hunt in the Forest', also surely a good example of widescreen painting:
The film opens and pretty much closes on disabled Ophelia Lovibond swimming and features a string performance from Jenny Seagrove as a very controlling mother. It's a good, complex screenplay by Paul Rutman.
The season ends on a fairly barmy story involving a group of aged rock musicians who frankly aren't particularly convincing: they are David Hayman, Anthony Higgins, Trevor Byfield, Hilton McRae and Joanna Lumley, who is back from the dead. Simon Callow is perhaps a shade too camp as the band's producer but Isobel Middleton is good as a music scholar. With Perdita Weeks and Daniel Kaluuya.
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