Gently devastating, angry, Surrealist wonder.

Rating: Null/10 (8 December 1999)

Genuinely Surrealist artefact, in which a film whose structure is pervaded with death and dream has exploded into the mainstream. Best image: long shot of Malcolm and Anna caressing after his honouring by the city; the silver inscription tilted ominously sideways. Appropriately about the disruption of the domestic, but also the crimes and injustices of history returning to haunt the present, and especially the innocent. As such, its Surrealsim is political. Twist obviously crucial: but if we don't get it we must ask why we didn't find certain scenes strange. Do we find lack of communication normal? Acceptable?