Randy Sue Coburn

Nowhere will you see more people standing in more queues, and doing so more uncomplainingly, than in England. Nowhere will you find taxi drivers and salespeople more polite or customers more willing to smile through difficulties and delays. Nowhere will you meet better-behaved children or sense a greater reverence for public ceremony. Nowhere, in short, will you find a place in which the notions of self-control, responsibility, and restraint have been more faultlessly woven into the social fabric.

While watching this film last night on IFC, I found myself appreciating the social, historical and artistic subject matter. Despite Mrs. Parker's obvious and overwhelming psychological dysfunctions, I felt this was a genuine "true to life" expression of one participant's subjective experiences. This was a unique, if not quite legendary, circle of literary talent -- certainly deserving of serious cinematic treatment such as this. BUT....