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...

Tango-loving filmmaker Sally Potter directs herself in this vibrant tale of a director who offers fame and fortune to a professional hoofer (Pablo Veron) in return for dancing lesons. She abandons her script to improve her skills as a dancer, and to prepare a movie about tango featuring herself and Verón. The film offers a canny analysis of male-female relationships, as romance blossoms, with tango functioning as a model for the interrogation of power, passion, independence and cultural differen find out more...