er .... no !

I'm struggling to comprehend some of the flowery plaudits lavished on this film in previous reviews? even comparing Sally Potter with The Bard!

To my mind this is a classic example of style over substance. What is with the rhyming couplets? pure pretention on a stick ..

The whole backbone of the story just doesn't ring true for me. Honestly - why would an attractive, intelligent woman be interested in a beirut kitchen worker who looks like one of The Chuckle Brothers?!

What's with Shirley Henderson and the cleaning connection? ... and Sheila Hancock's Communist aunt from Ulster is just ridiculous, and the worse attempt at a Northern Irish accent I have ever heard ..

You only have to see the 'making of' featurettes in the extras to see just how into herself Sally Potter is ..

Arty Farty Jazzy B*ll*cks !