10 April 2012
First-time British film-maker Jordan Scott looks a promising talent as she manipulates her way through an eerie Thirties tale of a boarding school where the diving mistress is just a little bit gay.
By the lake, Miss G (Eva Green) fashions her girls into a tight unit until the group’s dynamics are challenged by the arrival of a Spanish student (Maria Valverde). She hates the school and the girls hate her, but it is eventually apparent that the diving mistress has a yen for her.
On the credit side, the acting is good, as is John Mathieson’s cinematography. But the director’s penchant for music never leaves us alone and her opaquely sensitive style — which seems more French than British — makes a slight story ponderously slow.
Cracks
Cert: 15
