Film of the Week

Cracks
(A review from the Independent)

Faculty be warned: appoint Eva Green to the teaching staff and teenage hormones run riot. Here she comes as the pulchritudinous Miss G, eyes glittering through thick mascara, her cigarette cocked at a rakish angle, as she first bewitches the girls at a 1930s boarding school and then is in turn bewitched by a visiting Spanish temptress (María Valverde).

1. Cracks
2. Production year: 2009
3. Countries: Ireland, Rest of the world, UK
4. Cert (UK): 15
5. Runtime: 104 mins
6. Directors: Jordan Scott
7. Cast: Eva Green, Imogen Poots, Juno Temple, Maria Valverde, Sinead Cusack
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Set-up complete, Jordan (daughter of Ridley) Scott proceeds to whip up a flouncing gothic melodrama that is ravishing and ­risible in about equal measure. Cracks totters on high heels and strikes all ­manner of poses in the mirror. Sooner or later it's bound to fall over.