Cornelia F Prior

Originally published on Best For Film Summer in February had all the potential to be lovely — admittedly a rainy day, winter warmer, hot chocolate of a film , but lovely. It also had all the correct ingredients: a dash of good looks from Browning, (and, if you are into the military-cum-fisherman aesthetic, from Downton ‘s Stevens) a pinch of convivial fireside singing from everyone, and a glug of functional alcoholism from Cooper. What’s not to love? Well, pretty much everything. The film – set in Lamorna, Cornwall, the home of the Newlyn School – is based on a...

A story told in seven fragments about love, gender, and relationships we were always taught, growing up, not to have.