Bouquet of Barbed Wire (2010)

Cautiously Recommended

UK

Television Mini-Series

Director: Ashley Pearce

Writers: Guy Andrews, Andrea Newman

Cinematographer: Mike Spragg

Composer: Ruth Barrett

Cast: Trevor Eve, Hermione Norris, Imogen Poots, Tom Riley, Jemima Rooper, Pierro Niel-Mee, Nicholas Farrell

A haute bourgeois family is slowly torn apart when its teenaged daughter falls pregnant to and marries her English teacher, who is ten years her senior, which gradually brings to light long buried secrets and lies, in this wonderfully acted and enjoyably trashy three part mini-series, which is let down considerably by its final episode, which lacks the relaxed pacing and black humour of its first two. Iain.Stott

Andrea Newman's novel was previously filmed as Bouquet of Barbed Wire (1976).