A steady trickle of sap, albeit one from the heart (writer-director Tina Rathborne's). It tells of the alternating raptures and tortures of childhood, or anyway those of a hypersensitive orphan with a Joan-of-Arc complex, raised by a domineering grandmother and sympathetic French governess with a Joan-of-Arc haircut. (The sap flows freest during the wedding ceremony of Wattles and Queenie, the stuffed bear and elephant.) David Lynch, director of Blue Velvet et al., has an acting role opposite Isabella Rossellini, also of Blue Velvet, as a man almost too Jimmy Stewart to be true ("Holy smokes!"). You keep waiting for the kicker, but even this, when it comes, gets you in the soft fleshy parts. Alexandra Johnes, Glynis Johns. (1988) — Duncan Shepherd
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