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True love, for better or verse

Watching Jane Campion’s period portrait of a love affair is like visiting a perfectly preserved Georgian house.

After admiring the sheer beauty and attention to detail, one doesn’t half long to throw a couple of leopard-skin cushions into the mix. Anything to provide a break from all that wall-to-wall, ever so slightly dull good taste.