A 40-year-old love letter arrives on cassette. Her answer? Pure, devastating silence.
When June receives a cassette from her wartime GI lover it stirs up memories and feelings that she's been trying to suppress for 40 years. 'You made me feel I was in the movies, how was I supposed to get back to normal life after that?'
Acting
Marjorie Yates does decades of grief in 20 minutes.
Direction
Strickland lets silence scream louder than dialogue.
Writing
That single line about movies? Devastating perfection.
Director
John Strickland
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for BBC2's 'Short and Curlies' strand, part of a 1990s renaissance for British short-form emotional devastation.
Marjorie Yates was already known for Alan Clarke's 'Rita, Sue and Bob Too'—this proved she could destroy you in one-tenth the runtime.
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