It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...
Malick is back with a waltz of a movie that wants to sweep you off your feet and drag you around from broody relationship to broody motif. Whimsy is dialed up to eleven in this intersecting love triangle tangle. If you're a die hard Malick fan you might still enjoy it but, if he's been slowly (or rapidly) losing you in recent years, then this will just have you scoffing into a motif of billowing curtains or an agency-less girlfriend with expensive if scanty clothes a find out more...