Film Reviews by Pete W

A low budget British film set entirely on Hampstead Heath during one summer afternoon. Don't be misled by the title, the film is more about relationships than sex. The film focuses on a number of couples on the Heath - including an elderly couple meeting again after 50 years, a recently divorced couple, a gay couple, a couple on a blind date and a horny young man desperate to couple with anyone (or anything). The script is absolutely spot on and full of touches that will make you smile broadly if not laugh out loud. Quality acting by a number of Englsh actors - Benjamin Withrow and Eileen Atkins as the elderly couple, Ewan McGregor as a manipulative gay man, Mark Strong as an enigmatic wealthy indivdual, Tom Hardy as the horny young man and particularly Hugh Bonneville and Gina McKee on an excruciating blind date stand out.

I haven't got the faintest idea what this film was trying to say. Perhaps it was just an exercise to see how far you can push the boundaries of censorship. Yes, you get to see total nudity, erections - the lot. But why?

Bruno Ganz's portrayal of Hitler should have won him an Oscar. A lengthy film but it doesn't drag (even though you know the ending!). The scene where Magda Goebbels slaughters her children is appalling - in the true sense of the word, as it should be. Don't be put off by the fact that the film is in German and subtitled - but it helps if you understand a bit of German. Special mention of the DTS soundtrack - the first Russian shell to fall on the bunker nearly blew my front room windows out.