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Anachronistic feel to it all


The film is set in 1936 but there's a lack of 'period sense',somehow, a sense that it is a mix of modern-day and the past as a fashion-accessory.
..In the beach horse-riding sequence, the riders wear modern-day riding-clothes (the '30s breeches would have been flared at the thigh; the riding-boots look like modern-day 'off-the-shelf' stuff; even the horses are carrying those modern, squared-off, numnahs that are anachronistic for the time-setting).
For all the work put into it, this flick can't transcend its modern t.v.-quickie production/acting limitations.

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