This made-for-television movie presented John Mortimer’s dramatisation of a novel by John Fowles.
Brash young art critic David Williams (Roger Rees) goes to interview Henry Breasley (Laurence Olivier), an elderly once-famous English painter who lives in a remote farmhouse in the south of France with two young women – former art students Anne (80s pop star Toyah Willcox) – known as “The Freak” – and Diana (Greta Scacchi) – known as “The Mouse”.
Williams gets caught up in the painter’s Bohemian lifestyle during his two-day visit, forcing him to reexamine his own attitudes towards life and art.
Henry Breasley
Laurence Olivier David Williams
Roger Rees Diana (“The Mouse”)
Greta Scacchi Anne (“The Freak”)
Toyah Willcox Beth Williams
Georgina Melville Jean-Pierre
Yves Brainville Mathilde
Denise Bailly
Director
Robert Knights
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