British director Chris Newby's second feature -- his first was the ravishing but rather willfully obscure ANCHORESS -- is highly impressionistic, and only intermittently interesting. Harry (John Hannah) doesn't have much luck meeting men in the beauty-obsessed world of
gay bars, because half his face is defined by a wine-colored birthmark shaped like the island of Madagascar. Bitter and despondent, Harry packs his car and drives to a lonely stretch of beach at what feels like the end of the world. There he encounters Flint (Bernard Hill), a petty thief who's
been buried up to his neck in the sand by a trio of thugs and left to drown in the incoming tide. Harry resc...
Released:
1995
Rated:
NR
Length:
93 mins