
Plot
Margaret is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl. Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire. She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother, who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.
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Cast

Jeanne Moreau
Lili

Joan Plowright
Mrs. Monro

Lena Headey
Margaret

Julie Walters
Monica

David Threlfall
Syl

Catherine Schell
Marie-Claire

John Wood
Robert

Padraig O'Loinsigh
Nour

Britta Smith
Mother Joseph

Annabel Burton
Margaret as a Child

David Gant
Gallery Owner

Roger Lloyd Pack
Derek