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Variety

“Despite its emotional intensity, the film is comic, effervescently so, and its magical ending lends wit a metaphysical dimension

Artfully exposing cinema's debt to theatricality, Alain Resnais's impeccably designed take on Alan Ayckbourn's stage study of the secrets and half-truths destabilising a Yorkshire amdram company affords a final opportunity to see a master at work. A mischievously melancholic delight. ★★★★

charming, delicately performed and unexpectedly poignant ★★★★