Passion, along with the delicious disorder that so often accompanies it, is only allowed into the film toward the end.
The film is filled with good-on-paper moments that build up and slowly tighten like a knot but usually end in a whimper.
The filmmakers may have created the gay camp classic of 2006.
It’s all very interesting, but it still feels like a cut-and-dry homework assignment...or a Paula Abdul song.
The film's performances deserve a look though this is a relatively uninspired DVD edition.
Despite Richard Eyre’s flowery direction, there’s a brave humanism at work here as Iris.