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The Summer House

1993, Movie, NR, 82 mins

The Summer House: Review

Jeanne Moreau steals the show in this quiet comedy of manners produced by the BBC. Margaret (Lena Headey) is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl Monro (David Threlfall). Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire (Catherine Schell)... read more leave a comment