Directed by Harley Cokeliss
Written by Christopher Wicking, Harley Cokeliss and Catherine de Pury
Starring Jemma Redgrage, Kathleen Wilhoite, Jimmy Nail, Timothy Spall, Mark Greestreet and Susan Fleetwood
UK, 1988
A young woman’s (Jemma Redgrave) anxieties about her pending nuptials manifest themselves in disturbing and violent dreams. She’s set to marry a “hero” (Mark Greenstreet) of the Falklands war, so the local London paparazzi (Timothy Spall and Jimmy Nail) is following her around trying to get the story. As both the dreams and the press become more intrusive, lines between reality and fantasy begin to blur and it becomes unclear whether this is all in the young woman’s head, or if something supernatural is going on.
This is a strange, unpleasant movie that takes a little too long to get going. Once it does, it eventually deals with astral projection and childhood trauma. My favorite part of it was the central relationship between the two female leads – early on, Redgrave meets an American tourist (Kathleen Wilhoite) who is in town in search of answers about her own past. Wilhoite helps Redgrave stand up to the paparazzi, and the genuine platonic friendship that forms between the two of them as they offer each other support is nice to see.
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