Richard E. Grant stars as J.M. Sinclair, a successful author who hires an aspiring writer Liam Somers (Daryl McCormack) to tutor his son Bertie (Stephen McMillan). Liam moves in with J.M. and his wife Helene (Julie Delpy) and discovers a dark secret.
This is an elegantly directed debut feature by Alice Troughton, from a script by Alex MacKeith that is leisurely paced but never boring. Some of the revelations are predictable, and the use of a dead son in the plot is a bit of a trope, but they mostly still work.
The performances are all good with Grant excelling as the cold author, almost making someone so unlikable sympathetic.
Rating: 7 out of 10