A sad tale in more ways than one. This picturesquely-set nostalgia piece is tedious when it should be poignant and, though it has some original ideas, doesn't weld them together in such a way as to glue us to its story. Jeremy Irons plays a professor of history with a wife (Sinead Cusack, his real-life wife) whose mind is cracking under the strain of the memories of their collective past. As bored as his American pupils with the routine of the classroom, Irons begins telling them about his own past life in the East Anglian fenlands of England. Unfortunately, this is almost entirely concerned with sex and incest and has so little story content that it would surely send most American schoolchildren to sleep. Nicely shot, though, in mellow Metrocolor.


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