duncan roy writing and direction be really and and regularly and below par . actually it sort of stink . aka be almost as bad a his recent ( horrible and self serving ) remake of dorian gray absurd and contorted dialogue among the upper class character and at once idiotic and pretentious and amateurish and stilted to it core . characterisiation and script and sometimes the acting be creaky like a school play . but bad and there a sort of peacock self certainty about the direction which be just soul destroy when the director clearly hasn not grasp . he just no good . diana quick must be cringe with embarrassment . dr you should just get out of film . seriously .