Voices From A Locked Room

Based on a documented tale of true-life madness, this film gets bogged down in a perplexing story and never manages to make it clear why it undertook to tell it in the first place. During the 1930s, British music critic Philip Heseltine (Jeremy Northram) cherishes his newspaper position as guardian of the arts. The John Simon of his day, waspish Heseltine aims the majority of his brickbats at contemporary composer Peter Warlock, even though Heseltine's best friend, pianist Gerald Duffy (Hilton McRae), is a champion of Warlock's modern opuses. Heseltine's romance with American vocalist Lily Buxton (Tuska Bergen) gives Warlock a respite from the constant criticm, but w...