Better Things (15)

Reviewed,Anthony Quinn
Friday 23 January 2009 01:00 GMT
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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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