Mona Lisa

Hoskins is so powerful, so rendingly alive, he (...) lifts this delicate film from socially aware thriller into a Scorsese-like parable on exploitation, greed and the various dangerous guises of desire.

...a new British film set in the tattered precincts of Soho, where vice lords run sordid clubs in which young, bewildered provincial women sell themselves to earn money for drugs.

Hoskins is tremendous, giving a sensitive, multi-faceted performance that infuses the film with an inner life.