Carrington

...a slick combination of period drama and rampant sexual adventure, every bit as saucy as you would expect from the Oscar-winning writer of Dangerous Liaisons.

We are left to guess what emotions seethed beneath the surface of wit and acceptance.

It's a rare pleasure to watch two top-notch equals play off one another.

Christopher Hampton's screenplay is as witty, self-conscious and unclubbable as its tragically hip protagonists.

What the film is really saying is that Carrington's feminist spirit overlaps with Strachey's out-of-body refinement in a way that no ''normal'' heterosexual union could match.