- Casual romance and a true contradiction in terms come to life when a bright, awkward college girl lusts after an attractive working-class hood. Soon he is falling in love as fast as she is losing interest. As the balance of power shifts between them, their relationship spirals into one of obsession and paranoia.
- Phyllida Lloyd's acclaimed adaptation for film of the opera that Benjamin Britten wrote for the celebrations of the Queen's coronation in 1953, based on the Opera North revival of a work now recognised to be one of the composer's great achievements. Paul Daniel conducts the English Northern Sinfonia, with a cast inspir…