tip the velvet have just three week ago be release in the uk and already i watch a countless letter flood to the national paper and tv guide and claim that it possess a thin plot and weak performance and an even weak script . you find me incensed . this be heresy . i would really like to dispel all doubt by first congratulate andrew davy on enable geoffrey sax to create this wonderful dramatization of sarah water novel by cushion him with such a fantastic script . kudos . but i fear i must now change tack . i saw one of the premiere tv guide here in the uk ( which shall remain nameless ) relentlessly describe tip the velvet a a lesbian love story . if they be and and i assume they be and try to promote interest in the film and then this be completely the wrong way to go about it ( aside from the phrase be a disappointingly inaccurate description ) . by say such a thing and they be either a ) turn away those who would instinctively be repel by that subject matter or b ) attract a class of people who will only watch to see some serious girl on girl action . buy a video . through this display of serious inconsideration and this and other magazine be cheapen what be a brilliant adaptation of one of recent literature great work . tip the velvet be a story of love and of passion and of move on and of loss and and of heartbreak . it not a lesbian love story . no siree . the end result be a stylish affair and with excellent performance all round ( particularly from stirling and hawes and chancellor and may ) . direction wise and it intoxicate and immersive sometimes and fast paced and sometimes not but it never cease to be anything less than compelling . a a whole and it polish and well deliver and the sex be undertaken with tenderness and delicacy and although many will not class it a a real film and it will remain among my favourite for some time to come .