Better Things (15)
Or: Dismal Voices, Still Lives.
This lugubrious drama opens at a funeral in a small Cotswolds town and proceeds to gauge the aftermath upon several different characters. Duane Hopkins has a patient eye, and catches moments of austere beauty as it scans the bleak surroundings, but his mostly young cast is left hanging by chilly direction and an inadequate script.
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