An upper-class young woman is in love with her housekeeper's son. She has a younger sister who is disturbed by their behavior and ends up accusing the lad of a crime he hasn't committed.
To classify this simply as kitsch would in fact be complimentary, since I have seen other instances of kitsch with greater entertainment value and thematic consistency. The fact is that, even disregarding style, the film has structural problems: it feels choppy and condensed. And the greatest problem of all seems to come from the text itself: some of the individual episodes were interesting, but they didn't seem to add to a meaningful whole. And, as everyone else has already pointed out, the film's idea of atonement is ridiculous.
Rating: 39
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