5/10
Scenes of emblematic natures
27 October 2012
Hampsted Heath, one of London's greenest lungs, is well known as a place for illicit sexual encounters (mostly featuring gay men); and becomes the setting for this series of vignettes about interacting couples. It's a nice idea, with the diversity of pairings reflecting the diversity of the modern city; but unfortunately, every couple seems to have been chosen to be explicitly emblematic, no-one feels truly individual and the dialogue has the feel of a first script, written by someone who understands what the words must do, but isn't yet quite capable of writing them. There's the odd amusing moment here but that's all; the leads are played by a gallery of familiar British character actors, all of whom have had meatier roles elsewhere.
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