This ambitious film, scripted by David Hare from his hit play, charts the growing social malaise in Britain in the years following World War Two. Meryl Streep gives a tour de force performance as the central character, a neurotic young woman who moves from idealism to frustration and madness in her passage through a succession of bleak political and personal events. Director Fred Schepisi, who reteamed with Streep for A Cry in the Dark, about the dingo baby case, here coaxed a dazzling if cold performance from her. Top marks too for another of her brilliant accent jobs. The rest of the (mostly British) cast are well up to their roles. All it lacks is passion.


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