For once a film's publicity is right: this is, on the whole, a tender, humorous and passionate story of a gay ballet dancer living with AIDS. It certainly catches the heady emotion both of a gay relationship under the shadow of death, and the performance of a ballet that may be the dancer's last. Jason Flemyng has never been better, nor more charismatic than as the dancer, and there are notable contributions from Antony Sher as his therapist lover, Dorothy Tutin as the slightly dotty founder of the ballet, Anthony Higgins as Flemyng's mentor, and Philip Voss as a ballet master and Tutin's ex. A pity Sher's character is supposed to be 30, though. Mr Sher has many fine qualities, but looking 30, alas, was by this time no longer one of them.

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