Time Out says
victim Daniel Brühl (‘Good Bye Lenin!’) washes ashore one unassuming day. While the mysterious young man, who doesn’t speak a word of English, heals up in their spare bedroom, sensible sis Janet (Smith) attempts communicating with him in German, flightier Ursula (Dench) develops a secret but fiery crush on him, and out-of-towner Natascha McElhone whisks the lad away to nurture his soon-evident violin-playing talent. It’s all as postcard-pretty, pleasantly dull, and wholly inconsequential as it may sound; Dance tiptoes around Ursula’s suppressed desires so nervously that her character remains frustratingly oblique, though the redoubtable team of Dench and Smith have a prickly but affectionate rapport that feels decades lived-in.
Release Details
- Rated:12A
- Release date:Friday 12 November 2004
- Duration:103 mins
Cast and crew
- Director:Charles Dance
- Screenwriter:Charles Dance
- Cast:
- Judi Dench
- Maggie Smith
- Natascha McElhone
- Daniel Brühl
- Miriam Margolyes
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