(Sun 14th, Mon 15th 8pm, Wed 17th 11am and 8pm, £4/3)
(Tom Kalin / USA / 2007 / 97 mins / Cert 15)

Like his landmark debut Swoon (1992), Tom Kalin's long-awaited follow-up is based on a shocking true story, adapting Natalie Robins and Steven M L Aronson’s book. The film follows the notorious family tragedy of the beautiful but damaged Barbara Daly (Julianne Moore), who married above her class to the wealthy Brooks Baekeland (Stephen Dillane), heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Their only child, Tony, is a failure in his father's eyes, and is smothered by his lonely mother. The fact that he's homosexual only makes him feel more alienated. Kalin presents six episodes which track the the family as they relocate from New York to Paris to Spain to Ibiza throughout the 1950s and '60s, and as Tony is more crushed by his mother's fanatical dependency, he starts to lose his mind which leads to desperate tragedy...