Q. How do you confuse a Multiplex Moppet. A. Put Ewan McGregor on the marquee and then have him kiss Douglas Hodge. They're gonna love this in the UGCs but the rest of us can bask in a strangely old-fashioned portmanteau entry with no fancy angles - in fact hardly Any Angles at all to speak of; Long Shot, Medium Shot, Close Shot and ...er.. that's about it. Made for a stick of gum and looking like it was made for at least a pack it offers a sort of clear CCTV footage of an afternoon on Hampstead Heath in which seven couples muse on the nature of love and/or perhaps more accurately, relationships. Whilst it's unlikely that you'd encounter quite so many variants in a single afternoon you would almost certainly come across three or four including the obligatory gay duo, McGregor and Hodge, not so long after they co-starred on stage in Guys and Dolls and now, after a fifteen year relationship addressing the question of adopting a child. Elsewhere Eileen Atkins and Benjamin Whitrow stretch credulity by meeting again after half a century and marriage to other people, Sophie Okenado is dumped, Hugh Bonneville undergoes an uneasy blind date, Catherine Tate and Adrien Lester meet up in the wake of their divorce and so on. It's a gentle, nonthreatening afternoon, well acted, competently written and shot but it may not be enough though I hope it is.
Review of Scenes of a Sexual Nature
