I have rarely seen such a profoundly troubling film palmer is a master and this is his masterpiece simon heffer the film is deeply powerful if harrowing ill be haunted by its images and the potent use of brittens music for quite some time and my depth of understanding of britten has considerably deepened its a work of art in itself victoria bevan albion media nothing quite prepares us for the ferocity and daring and the intensely subjective rapture of palmers work that still