Amazon Studios brings us this poignant but restrained love triangle that sees a later-years married couple taking in a now-stroke-afflicted old friend, juxtaposed with extended flashbacks to the 1950s that sees the early years of their relationship/marriage and the husband's secret affair with the male friend. With a similar feel and use of locations to 2020's Hope Gap, the big selling-point is Harry Styles as the young policeman drawn into a clandestine affair with the more-secure museum curator before settling down to marriage, and he gives a charming if adequate performance appropriate to the character, overshadowed by other more experienced players such as Rupert Everett as the older version of the friend. The film captures the Sussex Coast beautifully, from wintry modern day to sunnier times past, and a 'business trip' to Venice conveys a nice sense of release for the two young men, but in terms of the overall story the two halves both feel underwritten and neither fully developed, with two films seemingly vying for attention within the same space in this worthy if slightly unremarkable presentation.
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