A very slow, poorly constructed Argentinian film with all the elements of a continental sexplotation film of a decade earlier. The comely governess succumbs to her 15-year-old charge, while her employer helps to drive his family round the bend by laying a nubile widow across the snooker table. The film's pretensions to class lie in its setting - Argentina from 1938 to 1945 - and in the presence of Julie Christie as the governess. Christie, however, is not exactly ideally cast, and the rest of the acting is nowhere quite passable. Not even especially good to look at, the film leans heavily on its attention to period - which its own fragmented structure works against - and on the performance of its younger players, of whom Sofia Virnboff and Barbara Bunge do show some aptitude, perkiness and individuality.

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