Eine sachliche Romanze

...Grant, especially, is a revelation as the charming but self-obsessed director, trailing a series of ambiguous sexual peccadilloes and broken hearts.

As a portrait of the company and its emotional tangles, An Awfully Big Adventure has a gritty authenticity...

Based on the novel by Beryl Bainbridge, it's a dark and complex film filled with nasty nuance and cruel throwaway moments.

...about Stella Bradshaw (...), a young, stagestruck odd duck who gets a job as an assistant stage manager and goes gaga for Potter — that's how naive she is.