A Masculine Ending

Loretta Lawson is surrounded by death, as she celebrates in Oxford, a student takes her own life, and when she travels to stay in an associate's Parisian apartment, a man lay dead in the next room.

It's a pretty decent watch, I have searched high and low for this drama, it's been very difficult to track down. It starts off brilliantly and ends well, some of the middle is a little bit padded.

The ending comes as a real surprise, not the outcome I was expecting.

It's a gorgeous looking drama, Paris and Oxford, what finer cities could you wish to see, the visuals and acting are the best elements.

The music is pretty horrible, it's so dated, and so intrusive, I think some scenes would have worked a lot better if they'd toned the noise down a bit.

Terrific acting, Janet McTeer is the standout, Imelda Staunton and Bill Nighy are very good in support.

It's worth a look, 7/10.

Considering the time, effort, and expense of shooting a film in two countries one would think someone involved would have read the script. The entire situation is impossible. Without giving anything away it is difficult to comment. But a girl commits suicide, and is found while the main character is on holiday in Paris. The murdered man is killed on the main character's first night in Paris. Later we learn that this is in response to the girl's suicide. Yet if we have watched the movie, we realize that the body of the suicide victim had not been discovered yet. There was no motive for the crime! This is just one of many logical blunders in this poor excuse for a murder mystery. How do people who have obviously been savvy enough to make the money it takes to finance a project like this not have the common sense to notice the product they are paying for is impossibly bad? I will always be flabbergasted.