36 minutes of British comedy legends gaslighting each other in a manor house? Sign me up.
Jessica, the second Mrs Saunders, arrives with her new husband John at his country estate. Very much left to her own devices she is unnerved by the power that Consuela, the sinister Spanish housekeeper,seems to wield, comparing her to John's first wife and forbidding her to enter a mysterious locked room.
Acting
French and Saunders at peak sketch energy, barely containing themselves.
Direction
Frears treats the silly premise with genuine cinematic tension.
Director
Stephen Frears
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of The Comic Strip Presents... series that launched alternative British comedy in the 80s, featuring the entire 'young ones' crowd before they were household names.
Stephen Frears directed this between Prick Up Your Ears and Dangerous Liaisons—explaining why a 36-minute comedy short has such deliberate gothic atmosphere.
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