It’s 1975 and Alice Lamb, played by Penelope Wilton, is cussing at her typewriter and telling cute children to “bugger off.” When we cut back to the same typewriter some 30 years …
, works hard in its opening 10 minutes to convey the irascible Alice’s unlikability, and then even harder over the following 89 to unpick that impression. It’s all very good-natured but it does amount to a zero-sum game.
As repeatedly established up front, Alice does not like children. Could there be a reason for that, or has she simply not met the right one yet? Swale’s well-intentioned, if timidly family-friendly screenplay is sensitive in its details but overstated in its broad outlines, and so opts for both explanations. Alice’s great love Vera left many years earlier because she wanted a “respectable” relationship in order to have a family, so Alice’s scarred heart has cause to resent the little blighters.
Race is never once mentioned or even alluded to, and the depiction of same-sex passion tops out at a giggly afternoon swim and a very chastely shot kiss in which the mouths are artfully obscured.
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